Brighouse bus station
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Brighouse bus station serves the town of Brighouse
Brighouse
Brighouse is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England. It is situated on the River Calder, east of Halifax in the Pennines. It is served by Junction 25 of the M62 motorway and Brighouse railway station on the Caldervale Line and Huddersfield Line. In the...

, West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England with a population of 2.2 million. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972....

, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

. The bus station is owned and managed by Metro (WYPTE)
West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive
The West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive is the Passenger Transport Executive for the county of West Yorkshire, England. It is the executive arm of the West Yorkshire Integrated Transport Authority and was originally formed on 1 April 1974 as the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport...

. The bus station is situated in the Brighouse Town Centre and could be accessed from Gooder Street and Ganny Road. The current station was opened from 10 May 2009 on the site of the previous one that dates back from the 1970s.

The new bus station cost £2.38 million and provides passengers with more comfortable and safer enclosed waiting areas, new seating and lighting, real time electronic passenger information, 24 hour CCTV surveillance and additional footpaths and pedestrian access

Services

The main operators that use the station are First West Yorkshire
First West Yorkshire
First West Yorkshire is the trading name of the four First bus companies serving the area of West Yorkshire, England. It forms part of FirstGroup, a company operating transport services across the British Isles and in North America...

's Bradford
First Bradford
First Bradford is one of the bus companies serving the area of West Yorkshire, England. It forms part of FirstGroup. The company operates the majority of services in the Bradford area, covered by Metro, a public body responsible for helping to co-ordinate public transport services in the West...

 and Calderdale & Huddersfield
First Calderdale & Huddersfield
First Calderdale & Huddersfield is one of the bus companies serving the area of West Yorkshire, England. It forms part of FirstGroup, a company operating transport services across the British Isles and in North America...

 operations, Arriva Yorkshire
Arriva Yorkshire
Arriva Yorkshire is a division of Arriva which operates bus services around West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire and the southern areas of North Yorkshire in England.-History:Arriva Yorkshire was formed as a combination of mergers of previous...

, Community Transport Calderdale, Halifax Joint Committee
Halifax Joint Committee
Halifax Joint Committee is an independent bus company operating in and around Halifax, West Yorkshire, England.Its buses are painted in the livery of the former County Borough of Halifax a whose buses and services were taken over by the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive on 1 April...

 and TJ Walsh. National Express Coaches services go from here daily south to London.

Buses run from the bus station to Baildon, Bradford
Bradford
Bradford lies at the heart of the City of Bradford, a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, in Northern England. It is situated in the foothills of the Pennines, west of Leeds, and northwest of Wakefield. Bradford became a municipal borough in 1847, and received its charter as a city in 1897...

, Cleckheaton
Cleckheaton
Cleckheaton is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England, situated south of Bradford, east of Brighouse, west of Batley and south-west of Leeds...

, Dewsbury
Dewsbury
Dewsbury is a minster town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England. It is to the west of Wakefield, east of Huddersfield and south of Leeds...

, Elland
Elland
Elland is a market town in Calderdale, in the county of West Yorkshire, England, south of Halifax, by the River Calder and the Calder and Hebble Navigation. The area of Elland was called Elant in the Domesday Book...

, Halifax
Halifax, West Yorkshire
Halifax is a minster town, within the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale in West Yorkshire, England. It has an urban area population of 82,056 in the 2001 Census. It is well-known as a centre of England's woollen manufacture from the 15th century onward, originally dealing through the Halifax Piece...

, Huddersfield
Huddersfield
Huddersfield is a large market town within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England, situated halfway between Leeds and Manchester. It lies north of London, and south of Bradford, the nearest city....

, Leeds
Leeds
Leeds is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdivision had a population of 443,247, while the entire city has a population of 798,800 , making it the 30th-most populous city in the European Union.Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial...

, Shipley
Shipley
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 and Wakefield
Wakefield
Wakefield is the main settlement and administrative centre of the City of Wakefield, a metropolitan district of West Yorkshire, England. Located by the River Calder on the eastern edge of the Pennines, the urban area is and had a population of 76,886 in 2001....

. Services 363, 384, X6 and X80 also run into the town centre but don't serve the bus station.

The bus services that use Brighouse Bus Station and its Stand Letter are :
(Places in bold are where services terminate)
No. |Operator |Destination |Stand
Monday-Saturday until 8pm Sunday until 6pm Evenings from 8pm (6pm Sundays)
256 Arriva Yorkshire Bradford via Scholes, Cleckheaton and Hunsworth F - -
258 Community Transport Calderdale Elland via Rastrick D - -
Clifton F - -
278 Arriva Yorkshire Halifax via Elland D N2
Wakefield via Mirfield and Dewsbury F N2
547 First West Yorkshire Huddersfield via Cowcliffe - F N1
548 First West Yorkshire Halifax via Hipperholme B Service 549
Nunnery Lane E N2
549 First West Yorkshire Halifax via Hipperholme B N1
Huddersfield via Hipperholme E Service 547, 548
570 First West Yorkshire Halifax via Elland C - -
Bradford via Hipperholme D Service 571
571 First West Yorkshire Halifax via Southowram C N1
Bradford via Hipperholme D N1
625
626
First West Yorkshire Baildon via Wyke, Bradford and Shipley A (626) A (625) N1 (625)
627 First West Yorkshire Shipley Glen via Wyke, Bradford and Shipley - A N1
E8 TJ Walsh Brighouse Train Station B - -
Barkisland via Elland D - -
X25 Arriva Yorkshire Leeds City Bus Station via Cleckheaton F1 - -


Notes:
1 One Monday-Friday morning journey only

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