Holmfirth bus station
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Holmfirth bus station serves the town of Holmfirth
Holmfirth
Holmfirth is a small town located on the A6024 Woodhead Road in the Holme Valley, within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. Centred upon the confluence of the Holme and Ribble rivers, Holmfirth is south of Huddersfield and from Glossop. It mostly consists of...

, 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...

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The bus station consists of four stands and can be accessed from Towngate in Holmfirth Town Centre. The stands are made from stone and overhang the River Holme
River Holme
The River Holme is a river in the Holme Valley, West Yorkshire, England and is a tributary of the River Colne. It starts from Digley reservoir and is then fed firstly by the run-off stream from Brownhill Reservoir, then by Dobbs Dike...

 beneath the bus station. Three of them have real-time information displays.

The bus station is near to the town's Post Office and main car park. It is also close to "Sid's Cafe" featured on the BBC TV comedy show Last of the Summer Wine
Last of the Summer Wine
Last of the Summer Wine is a British sitcom written by Roy Clarke that was broadcast on BBC One. Last of the Summer Wine premiered as an episode of Comedy Playhouse on 4 January 1973 and the first series of episodes followed on 12 November 1973. From 1983 to 2010, Alan J. W. Bell produced and...

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Services

The main operators 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...

, Huddersfield Bus Company
Centrebus Holdings
Centrebus Holdings is a bus company in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. It is a partnership between Arriva and Centrebus, created in May 2008 to purchase both K-Line Travel and Stagecoach Yorkshire's Huddersfield operations.-Stagecoach:...

, Stotts Coaches
Stotts Coaches
E. Stott & Sons, more commonly known as Stotts Coaches or just simply Stotts is a bus and coach company based in Milnsbridge near Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, England.-History:...

 and Tates Travel
Tates Travel
Tates Travel is a bus operator based in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England which operates passenger bus services in South Yorkshire and into West Yorkshire.-History:...

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Buses run from the bus station around the Holme Valley
Holme Valley
Holme Valley is a large civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It has a population of 25,049 . Its administrative centre is in Holmfirth. Other sizeable settlements in the parish include, Brockholes, Honley and New Mill...

 and mostly to Huddersfield
Huddersfield bus station
Huddersfield bus station serves the town of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England.The bus station was opened on Sunday 1 December 1974 and is owned and managed by the Metro . The bus station is situated in Huddersfield town centre, underneath the Multi-storey car park...

. Buses also run as far a field as Meltham
Meltham
Meltham is a small town and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England. It lies in the Holme Valley, below Wessenden Moor, four and a half miles south-west of Huddersfield on the edge of the Peak District National Park...

, Penistone
Penistone
Penistone is a small town market town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, in South Yorkshire, England, with a population of 10,101 at the 2001 census. It lies west of the town of Barnsley and north east of Glossop, in the foothills of the Pennines...

, Slaithwaite
Slaithwaite
Slaithwaite is a village within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England. It lies in the Colne Valley laying across the River Colne and the Huddersfield Narrow Canal, approximately southwest of Huddersfield. The pronunciation of Slaithwaite varies...

 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....

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The bus services that use Holmfirth Bus Station and their stand letter are shown below.:
(Places in bold are where services terminate)
No. Operator Destination Stand
25
25A
25B
Tates Travel Penistone via Dunford Bridge and Crow Edge B
308 First West Yorkshire Huddersfield railway station
Huddersfield railway station
Huddersfield railway station serves the town of Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, England.The station is managed by First TransPennine Express who provide trains between the North East, North and East Yorkshire, and Leeds to the east and Manchester Piccadilly and North West.It is also served by local...

 via Honley
Honley
Honley is a large village in West Yorkshire, England near to Holmfirth and Huddersfield situated on the banks of the River Holme in the Holme Valley. In 2001 it had a population of 5,897 according to the census.-Education:...

, Honley Bridge and Newsome
B
312 First West Yorkshire Huddersfield railway station via Honley Bridge B2
Parkhead C
313 First West Yorkshire Huddersfield railway station via Thongsbridge and Honley Bridge A
Hepworth C
314 First West Yorkshire Huddersfield railway station via New Mill and Honley Bridge A
Holme C
316 First West Yorkshire Huddersfield railway station via New Mill and Honley Bridge A
Parkhead C
335 Stotts Pole Moor via Meltham
Meltham
Meltham is a small town and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England. It lies in the Holme Valley, below Wessenden Moor, four and a half miles south-west of Huddersfield on the edge of the Peak District National Park...

 and Slaithwaite
Slaithwaite
Slaithwaite is a village within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England. It lies in the Colne Valley laying across the River Colne and the Huddersfield Narrow Canal, approximately southwest of Huddersfield. The pronunciation of Slaithwaite varies...

B
435
436
Huddersfield Bus Company Wakefield
Wakefield bus station
Wakefield bus station serves the city of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. The bus station is owned and operated by Arriva Yorkshire.The bus station is situated at next to Marsh Way A61 and the city's new market and can be accessed from both Marsh Way and Union Street.The bus station was rebuilt...

 via Denby Dale
Denby Dale
Denby Dale is a village and civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England, to the South East of Huddersfield. As a civil parish it covers the villages of Denby Dale, Lower Denby, Upper Denby, Upper Cumberworth, Lower Cumberworth, Skelmanthorpe, Emley, Emley...

B
951 Huddersfield Bus Company Glossop
Glossop
Glossop is a market town within the Borough of High Peak in Derbyshire, England. It lies on the Glossop Brook, a tributary of the River Etherow, about east of the city of Manchester, west of the city of Sheffield. Glossop is situated near Derbyshire's county borders with Cheshire, Greater...

 via Holme
D3
Huddersfield bus station
Huddersfield bus station
Huddersfield bus station serves the town of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England.The bus station was opened on Sunday 1 December 1974 and is owned and managed by the Metro . The bus station is situated in Huddersfield town centre, underneath the Multi-storey car park...

 via Honley Bridge
D3
H1
H2
Stotts Totties D
H3 Stotts Upperthong D
H4 Stotts Brockholes
Brockholes
Brockholes is a small village in West Yorkshire, England in the administrative area of Kirklees Metropolitan Council and Holme Valley Parish Council. It is within the Postal district of Holmfirth....

via Thongsbridge
D
H5 Stotts Deanhouse via Upperthong D
H7 Stotts Holmbridge D
X11 First West Yorkshire Huddersfield railway station via Honley Bridge C4
X13 First West Yorkshire Huddersfield railway station via Hepworth and Honley Bridge C5


Notes:
1 Sunday daytime only
2 Monday-Saturday evenings and Sunday daytime only
3 Summer weekends only
4 One journey at 12.31am. Peak time journeys run from stop number 1 on Huddersfield Road.
5 Peak times only

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