Bus, Trolleybus and Tram Routes of Kingston upon Hull Corporation
Predecessors and Successors. 1899 to 1986

Chapter Two

Beverley Road

Trams: B, BC, BS, BH, BN, QB.
Trolleybuses: 63, 63A, 67
Road Service Licence No’s: BH101/18, /32, /33, /58, /63, /74, /75, /76, BH101/81, /86, /88, /115, /117, /118, /145, /146, /147, /148, /149, /158

Beverley Road is one of Hull’s more important trunk routes and this fact is reflected in the number of transport services which the Corporation operated along it. In addition to Beverley Road itself there were also services running eastwards along Clough Road and Sutton Road as well as westwards along Cottingham Road and Hall Road and Greenwood Avenue.

However, at the turn of the century the situation was very different as only one tram route, which had the route letter ‘B’ operated along Beverley terminating at the Haworth Arms just past the Cottingham Road junction, this route had commenced operating in December 1900. There was a short working which was lettered QB and ran as far as Queens Road. The trams commenced from a terminus situated on Savile Street running via Bond Street and Albion Street to Prospect Street and Beverley Road.

In October 1901, the new thoroughfare to the south end of Prospect Street was opened and given the name King Edward Street, upon opening the tram terminus was removed to the southern end of the new street.

Developments on the route were slow, and it was not until June, 1919, when a further service commenced to run along Beverley Road. The new route lettered ‘BC’ ran to Cottingham Road where tracks were now laid as far as Newland Park. In the same year the tracks along Cottingham Road were used for a circular service between Beverley Road and Newland Avenue which ran as ‘BS’ via Beverley Road and Newland Avenue and as ‘SB’ in the reverse direction. This service was discontinued at some point during 1923.

Further expansion of the tramway occurred in October 1925, when the Cottingham Road tracks were extended from Newland Park to the Goodfellowship Inn west of Chanterlands Avenue and a new service lettered ‘BC’, this terminus was the same one that was used by the Chanterlands Avenue service ’SWC’. The main route also had the tracks extended from the Haworth Arms to the junction of Desmond Avenue. At the outset this extended route took the route letters ‘BH’ (Beverley High Road), with the earlier route becoming a short working of the latter. ‘BH’ commenced operation in July 1926, whilst in November of that year motor buses commenced operations on Beverley Road. This was in the form of a night service which terminated at the BH tram terminus. A Sunday morning service also commenced which ran along Beverley Road and Cottingham Road to the Cottingham Road estate, a night service also operated to the Cottingham Road estate. Under the 1930 Road Traffic Act the latter were given service numbers 21 and granted on licence numbers BH101/32(?) and /33(?), whilst the Desmond Avenue service became route number 18 and was granted on BH101/18. The first ordinary Corporation motor bus service to travel along Beverley Road commenced in 1933, it was granted on licence BH101/60 and covered service from the city to terminate at Greenwood Avenue, route number 16 was displayed.

In common with other tram routes, the Beverley Road tram services were curtailed, the BC being cut back to the depot on Cottingham Road, west of Newland Avenue while the ‘B’ short working ceased and the ‘BH’ was relettered ‘B’. The BC also was relettered to ‘BN’ i.e. N for Newland. On the bus front the two service 21’s to Cottingham Road estate were discontinued, being replaced by East Yorkshire’s Hull to Cottingham buses, as a consequence the licences BH101/32 and /33 were surrendered. The Cottingham Road estate was served by a new bus service also numbered 21, which ran through the estate terminating at the junction of Inglemire Lane and Hall Road. Also new was a Sunday morning service which ran to the 16 terminus at Greenwood Avenue, granted on BH101/63, it was given the route number 19. No further changes to the Beverley Road routes occurred from co-ordination until 1937, which saw an extension of the 16 service, along Greenwood Avenue to the junction of that road with York Road and Ellerburn Avenue, as the original route was continued, buses running to York Road were numbered 16A. This route served the developing housing estate in North Hull. It is believed, but not confirmed that at this time there were also night and Sunday morning services on this route as three licences, BH101/74 to /76, were issued at this time, the normal daytime 16A being on BH101/76.

An inter-district service linking Queen’s Road and the Reckitt’s factory in Dansom Lane commenced operation in 1937, it was given the number 28 in the inter-district series, and was granted on BH101/79. The route taken was from the Queen’s Hotel via Queen’s Road, Beverley Road, Clough Road, Stoneferry Road and Dansom Lane, terminating at Chapman Street, near to the factory.

Still in 1937 there was an extension of the 21 service in a similar manner to the 16/16A routes, numbered 21A, it was extended from Inglemire Lane along Oldstead Avenue to Endike Lane, where it terminated at the southern end of Ellerburn Avenue, this serving the southern part of the new North Hull estate. It was granted on licence number BH101/81.

On the tramways, the abandonment process reached Beverley Road in July 1938 when services B, BN and QB ceased operating, being directly replaced with trolleybus services 63 and 63A; working to Endike Lane junction or Cottingham Road garage respectively, this latter was, of course, the former tram depot.

A further inter-district service commenced operations in February 1939, which catered for people in North Hull to travel to rugby league matches taking place at Craven Park, operated on BH101/86, it was given the route number 29.

This point now beings the history up to the declaration of the Second World War, and Beverley Road had twelve services which were operating along it as under:

As stated earlier, the outbreak of war brought about a curtailment of bus services and accordingly the 18, 19 and 16A night and Sunday morning services were withdrawn, as was the service for Endike Lane to Craven Park. In February 1942 the 16A and 21A were renumbered 17 and 22 respectively in order to improve visibility of the route numbers under blackout conditions, the trolleybus short working 63A, was abandoned at this time so it was not renumbered. A trolleybus service commenced in December of the same year, the route ran via Beverley Road and Cottingham Road, as far as Chanterlands Avenue, at the point where the 61 terminated. The new route was numbered 67 but was short-lived as it was withdrawn in October of the following year, and from then onwards the 63 was the only trolleybus route along Beverley Road.

The first post-war developments along the Beverley Road corridor was the commencement of a new service 19 which ran along Beverley Road and Sutton Road to the new estate being built there. Licence BH101/88 was granted for the service, which commenced operating in March of 1947. It was to be seven years before any further changes occurred, when in April 1954 the 21 to Inglemire Lane was withdrawn and its licence surrendered. The new service 19 was extended along Sutton Road as far as Leads Road in June 1958. The following year saw the route 16 transferred from licence BH101/60 to BH101/76, where it became an untimed peak hour extra of service 17.

The next decade was to see a vast expansion of bus services in the city of Hull, but the Sixties started quietly, as the first development was the September 1963 renumberings which only affected one route, which was the Queen’s Hotel to Reckitt’s service which altered from 28 to 98, the latter series being used for special services.

An era ended on the final day of October 1964, when the final trolleybus route in the city ran its final journey to Cottingham Road garage, having run the last 63. This service had been the longest lasting of Hull’s trolleybus services having operated for twenty six years, and having seen two generations of vehicles. However it has succumbed to the motor bus as on the first of November service number 18 ran between the former trolleybus termini. It was provisionally granted on road service licence number BH101/117, but the substantive licence number was BH101/115. This was unusual for the substantive licence to be numbered lower than the provisional one. On the substantive licence there was an extra journey which ran as far as Cottingham Road garage, and carried route number 418.

The timetable dated April 1965, showed a new bus service which was operated by the Corporation jointly with East Yorkshire to the junction of Beverley Road and Mizzen Road where a new estate was being built, as the service was joint it was granted on a separate licence to the 18 and 418, the new licence number was BH101/118 and the route number 18A was used. This was unusual as the Corporation was still using a numerical prefix, to prove the point on licence BH101/81 a new route serving the University, terminating at Chanterlands Avenue north. It was given route number 822.

In the timetable dated October 1966 a new circular service was shown on licence BH101/76 which used the 16/17 services as one of the halves of the circular route. To enable circular operation the 17 was extended from its terminus at York Road, along Ellerburn Avenue, Orchard Park Road (westwards) and along the diverted Hall Road in the Orchard Park estate to a timing point situated at Milldane, on Hall Road the journey continued back to the city by service 13 which had been transferred to the licence from BH101/54. As the 17 was now the circular, route 16 now was extended to York Road where it terminated, whilst on the 13 side of the journey there were two short workings numbered 11 and 12, the first being an ‘extra journey’ which terminated at Endike Lane, whilst the second terminated at the junction of Hall Road and Orchard Park Road west. All three services ran from the city via Spring Bank, Spring Bank West, Chanterlands Avenue, Cottingham Road and Hall Road. This latter had been a joint service with East Yorkshire and initially the 13/17 circulars were also jointly operated. In the same timetable the terminus of Sutton Road service was extended to Cavendish Road for school journeys, but the majority of services still used Leads Road. The following timetable dated April 1967 showed two new variations on the BH101/76 licence. There were 13A to Ellerburn Avenue north and 17A to 37th Avenue, both of these travelled through Orchard Park along Hall Road.

Licence BH101/79 from its granting in 1937, had not changed for thirty years, but in April 1967 there were several changes and additions to the licence. The original route 28/98 was extended to the coach station, but became an untimed ‘extra journey’, and was renumbered 98A, whilst a new route was 98, which worked the same route as the 98 but terminated at Ripon Street on Hedon Road, the route being extended along Dansom Lane and via Holderness Road, Newbridge Road, Craven Street and Hedon Road, the 98A being extended back to the city.

A school service was also granted on the licence, which started in Stoneferry Road at the junction with Chamberlain Road and ran to Newbridge Road, where it served the David Lister High School situated in Rustenburg Street. Further changes were shown to the licence in the timetable issued the following October, when the City-Reckitt’s route 98A (ex 98 and 28), regained timed status and also regained the route number 98, while the Coach Station-Hedon Road service became 98A. In addition, a new route from Greatfield Estate via Annandale Road Preston Road and Southcoates Lane ran via the 98 route to Stoneferry Green, route number 99 was carried.

The April timetable has shown the end of the 418 service on BH101/115, whilst on BH101/81 the school service 822 became 22A. In October the service was renumbered yet again to 21. On licence BH101/88, the Leads Road terminus took route number 19A instead of 19 whilst the Cavendish Road terminus look 19B also instead of 19, thus removing confusion as to where each service terminated. Finally at this time on BH101/76, the Endike Lane ‘extra journey’ numbered 11 was discontinued, but a short working of the 17 was 17B which commenced at the terminus of the 13A, but ran back to the city via Beverley Road. Reverting to BH101/88, in June 1968 the 19A was renumbered 19S! This was of course, the Leads Road service, not the Cavendish Road one!

Major alterations to the Orchard Park circular services were shown in the timetable dated October 1968, the most obvious change was that the 17 was now linked to the 15 rather than the 13, the two services exchanged licences, however it will be recalled that the 13, had itself come from licence BH101/54 to which it now returned. The route of the 15 differed slightly between Chanterlands Avenue and Hall Road in that it now travelled via Bricknell Avenue and Fairfax Avenue, rather than Cottingham Road. Developments of the 13 service both before and after its circular operation can be followed in the chapter covering Spring Bank West. On the circular, the 16 and 17 were renumbered to 17 and 17C respectively whilst the 12 became 15B and the 13A replaced by 15A. Three new services were also shown, namely 15 to Orchard Park Road west, 15C the circular, which was the route from BH101/54 extended to form a circular and 17D Guildhall to 37th Avenue. Both the 15 and 15B services were untimed ‘extra journeys’. Also on the licence were two inter-district services, 29 and 29A, both of these commenced from Hall Road at 37th Avenue and travelled via Hall Road, Orchard Park Road, Ellerburn Avenue, Greenwood Avenue, Beverley Road and Clough Road, from this point on they were identical to the 98/98A travelling to the Coach Station or Ripon Street respectively. BH101/81 received a new service to Cottingham Road Garage which was numbered 21B. In order to facilitate a circular service via Newland Avenue, Endike Lane and Beverley Road the service 18 was transferred to the Newland Avenue licence BH101/114, BH101/115 being surrendered at this point.

In order to ease congestion in Chapman Street the terminus of the 29 and 98, was amended from that street to Dansom Lane. This occurred in March 1969. BH101/79 also received another new service from Greatfield, where the terminus was at the Saltford Avenue junction with Annandale Road, as was the 99, and the new service ran to serve Reckitt’s factory terminating in Dansom Lane, along with the 29 and 98. The new service took the route number 99B. BH101/81 also gained a new route which served the new High Schools on Orchard Park. Terminating at the Sir Leo Schultz High School on Danepark Road, the service was numbered 22S. In addition, BH101/88 gained a new 19A service which served the developing private housing estate of Sutton Park, between Sutton Road and Bransholme. The terminus was at the junction of Littondale and Grandale, having entered the estate from Sutton Road via Ennerdale. September of the same year saw two further services on licence BH101/76, the Orchard park circular, the first being a short working of the 15, which terminated at the junction of Chanterlands Avenue and Bricknell Avenue, this was numbered 16. The second service was a school service numbered 83. It commenced at the Princes Avenue/Queens Road junction and travelled via Newland Avenue, Cottingham Road and Hall Road terminating at Courtland Road junction to serve the St. John Fisher Junior High School. Two other school services commenced at this point also; on BH101/29 was 98B, Ferry Lane to Buckingham Street School and on BH101/88, the 88 which ran from Beverley Road/Sutton Road junction to the Bransholme High School on Midmere Avenue, meanwhile also on the latter licence the route 19S (Leads Road) was withdrawn.

After the 18C/20C circular was withdrawn, the route 18 to Endike Lane, the trolleybus replacement, was transferred to licence BH101/76, as its original licence had been surrendered. BH101/76 also received route 18B, which was transferred from BH101/88, where it had been 21B, the terminal point was at Cottingham Road garage. Both the 18 and 18B were untimed ‘extra journeys’. These alterations were first shown in the timetable dated March 1970. At this time another service to St John Fisher JHS commenced, this time starting at Compass Road and terminating at 37th Avenue, it was numbered 17S. The Orchard Park High Schools were also served by service 85, which commenced in Newland Avenue at Marshall Street and terminated at the Sir Henry Cooper High School in Thorpepark Road. Services withdrawn were the 98A (BH101/79) and 88 (BH101/88). The works service 19A which had been withdrawn in October 1969, recommenced as 19W, but now terminating at the Sutton Road/Holwell Road junction, the licence was, of course, BH101/88. The following October showed 19A terminating at Leads Road, but it was withdrawn by October 1971.

Changes to BH101/79 occurred in October 1971, when the 99 and 99B were re-numbered to 44 and 44B, but otherwise unchanged. The 98S, Buckingham Street - Stoneferry Service was discontinued and a new route 49 commenced running between Greatfield and Clough Road via Bilton Garage and Portobello Street and the 44 route. A new 99A terminating in Wawne Road commenced in September 1972. Three routes were withdrawn from BH101/76; there were the 15, 16 and 85, and the latter one was transferred to the Newland Avenue licence BH101/114. Meanwhile a new ‘limited stop’ journey to Clough Road/Beverley Road commenced under the route number 19X on BH101/88, all of these changes were given in the timetable dated March 1973. Meanwhile in September, BH101/76 received yet another new service, 15D, from the Guildhall to Ellerburn Avenue to Greenwood Avenue, the difference being only a few yards around the corner! On BH101/118 the 18A was renumbered to 16.

Services on BH101/88 were completely revised at this time, the 19B, 19W and 19X were discontinued and four new routes were introduced as follows: 18 to Sutton Road/Holwell Road; 19A to Haydock Garth (Noddle Hill, Bransholme); 19D and 19F to Sutton Park, St Oswald’s and St Anne’s Schools, the 19D commenced from the Guildhall whilst the 19F commenced at the Coach Station. A year after they had been transferred to BH101/76 the 18 and 18B ‘extra journeys’ ceased, the 18 was withdrawn whilst the 18B was transferred back to BH101/81 as 21B, which number it carried before the transfer!

A new route appeared on BH101/79, with route number 25, this was, in actual fact, the 19W from BH101/88. As a result of this transfer, the route number 98 became 25A, whilst the 98S was transferred to BH101/15 as route number 27S. An anomaly with this was that, throughout it life although the timetables stated that it commenced from Stoneferry as it did as 98S, it in fact, commenced from West Dock Avenue!

Two further ‘extra journeys’ occurred on BH101/76 in May 1994, and were numbered 17E and 17F. The 17E terminated at Endike Lane as was the trolleybus replacement service re-instated, whilst the 17F was the 21B transferred from BH101/81. The full history of this route is BH101/81 as 21B (10/68-3/70) BH101/76 as 18B (3/70-9/73), BH101/81 as 21B (9/73-5/75) and BH101/76 as 17F (5/74-1/81). In all of these guises the route had ‘extra journey’ status only and therefore never had any timed journeys. At this time also the 17S school service between Compass Road and St John Fisher JHS was renumbered 96. Changes to BH101/81 included the transfer of the 21B noted above, also the Chanterlands Avenue ‘extra journey’ 21 was renumbered 22B. This had started life as 822, becoming 22A then 21 and now 21B. Further revisions to the licence BH101/88, with a new route 18A to Wawne village, whilst the 19A was extended to Haydock Garth was renumbered 18, the 19 and 19B routes were withdrawn and the 19D and 19F services were extended from the Sutton Park Schools to Abingdon Garth via Noddle Hill Way.

By May 1975 licence BH101/76 was getting rather unwieldy, so three new licences were granted to take some of the more diverse routes from it. The new licences were BH101/145-7, BH101/145 gained the 29/29A services, whilst the school service 83 to St John Fisher JHS went to BH101/146 and the 96 from Compass Road went to BH101/147. The new issue of the timetable also showed that the 44 (ex 99) had now been extended back from Stoneferry and now commenced its journey to Greatfield estate from the Beverley Road and Clough Road junction, also on the same licence, BH101/79, were two new services from Sutton Fields Industrial Estate to Greatfield, they were numbered 44A, which ran by the same route as the 44 above, and 49A, which travelled via Bilton Grange along the 49 route.

The first attempt at commercial sponsorship of a bus service in the City of Hull took place in June 1975, when the Status D.I.Y. store on Clough Road paid for a bus service between the city centre and the store on a limited stop basis. On the outward journey the bus picked up passengers for the store and did not set passengers down anywhere else, upon production of the bus ticket at the store a discount was available on any purchases, returning to the city, the bus loaded only at the store, but set passengers down at any stop along the route; Clough Road and Beverley Road. The service was numbered 25X and was also on licence BH101/79. The store withdrew its support in August and the service ceased operating.

Transfers from BH101/79 took place in October 1975 when licences BH101/148 and /149 were granted. The first licence took route numbers 44 (Clough Road to Greatfield), 44A (Greatfield to Holwell Road) and 44B (Greatfield to Reckitt’s). The second licence took route numbers 49 (Clough Road to Greatfield) and 49A (Greatfield to Holwell Road), both of which travelled via Portobello Street and Bilton Grange. On BH101/79 the 25A (City to Reckitt’s) route was withdrawn, leaving only the 25 (City to Holwell Road) on the licence.

A new service on licence BH101/88 was shown in the timetable dated July 1976, this being numbered 18S running between Sutton Park (Littondale) and Queens Road. A completely new route 21 was commenced at this time on a new licence (BH101/158). The service ran from the City to Hall Road via Brunswick Estate, Beverley Road and Endike Lane. Confusion may have been caused in the following September, when a new route 18S commenced operating between Cleeve School and Holwell Road, the earlier 18S was renumbered 19S.

The next changes along the Beverley Road corridor took place in May 1977 when BH101/76 received a further service, another 17S, which operated to the Sir Henry Cooper High School on Orchard Park and running via the 17 route. It was at this time that the 25 was discontinued and licence BH101/79 was duly surrendered. On licence BH101/88 the 18 was extended from its terminus at Haydock Garth to Ladyside Close on north Bransholme, the Cleeve School service 18S was also withdrawn. On licence BH101/81 there was a new route shown, numbered 22A, it was identical to the existing 22 but extended northwards along Ellerburn Avenue, across Greenwood Avenue to the Orchard Park terminus at the northern end of Ellerburn Avenue.

A year later in May 1978, another service to Sir Henry Cooper High School commenced carrying the number 17W it travelled to the school from Sykes Street and ran via the Brunswick estate. The Chanterlands Avenue service 22B on BH101/81 achieved the status of having timetabled services from its earlier ‘extra journey’ only status. Back on BH101/88 the 19S reverted back to 18S, the inner terminal being extended from Queen’s Road to Norfolk Street.

Redevelopment of the Victoria Dock and Drypool areas meant that Ripon Street was demolished and accordingly the terminus of the 29A was moved to the Craven Street and Hedon Road junction, instead of Ripon Street.

In June, there was a new service commenced on licence BH101/148. It commenced at Saltford Avenue/Annandale Road in Greatfield estate it worked via the 44 route into the city centre and from there ran to Gipsyville terminating at Norton Grove, travelling via the 67 route. A further school service commenced in September on licence BH101/76, to Sir Henry Cooper High School also with the route number 17S, but like the 17W it travelled via Brunswick estate from Norfolk Street, but back to the Coach Station. A new service on licence BH101/88 was 18B which was another route to North Bransholme via Wawne Road and Cumbrian Way. Yet another 19W also commenced running between the Coach Station and Holwell Road. The route had commenced in 1972 as 19, but was withdrawn in May 1974. The western terminus of the school service 96, on BH101/147 was extended from the Ada Holmes Circle (for 5th Avenue school) to 37th Avenue, where it now also served the St John Fisher Junior High School also, the change occurring in June 1978, while in September the 18 service on BH101/88 had its outer terminus altered from Cumbrian Way to Gifford Close. Five services on three licences were also withdrawn at this point, these being 16B, 17B and 17E (BH101/76), 18B (BH101/88) and 42 (BH101/148).

Major reorganization of all bus services operating to or thought he Bransholme estates occurred in June 1980. One of the changes was that all services to the estates were now numbered in the 30’s. On the Beverley Road corridor only one licence, BH101/88 was affected. Services 18 and 19D were both extended to Cumbrian Way on North Bransholme and renumbered 30 and 30D respectively. The 18S was renumbered 30S, but otherwise unchanged. The 19 and 18A were both withdrawn and there was a new variant, which served the Bransholme District Centre, which carried the route number 31.

The inner termini to services on licence BH101/76 changed in August of the same year, the 16A and 16C moved into the Coach Station from outside the ABC Cinema in Ferensway. This was partly political as the city council had just evicted East Yorkshire Motor Services Ltd's services from the Coach Station in a disagreement concerning rent for the usage of stands in the Station, this was soon to be resolved however but the City Transport’s services still remained in the Coach Station. On the same licence at the same time the 16D and 17D services now commenced at Castle Street rather than the Guildhall, and ran via the Old Town, before entering the Coach Station and then on the normal routes.

Further changes were made to the 17 group in January 1981 as the 17, 17F and 17W were withdrawn, the Norfolk Street-Orchard Park 17S was renumbered 17W, while a new Norfolk Street to St John Fisher JHS service took the number 17X. Licence BH101/81 was also revised at this point the 22 and 22A were withdrawn and the Chanterlands Avenue service 22B was numbered 18B and the school service 22S became 18S. Two new services commenced 18 and 18D, both of which followed the old 22 route to Endike Lane and ran along that road to the Beverley Road junction, the latter service ran to the Guildhall rather than the Coach Station but otherwise the two services were identical. Reckitt’s lost the 44B service from Greatfield (BH101/148) and the 21 service to Endike Lane via Brunswick was also withdrawn, and its licence BH101/158 was surrendered. May of 1981 saw the 19W on BH101/88 lose it suffix, becoming plain 19, but it still terminated at Sutton Fields. On licence BH101/147 a new school service, numbered 96, commenced, running from Downfield Avenue on the new Ings Bridge estate, which was situated along Beverley High Road close to the city boundary this was the earlier route extended from the Mizzen Road (Trafalgar) estate.

Under the disagreement with East Yorkshire referred to earlier the four joint services, namely 18, 33, 56 and 66 were moved out of the Coach Station, however after six weeks they were allowed to use the uncovered stand 6 for these four services. In the interval, however, the 16 moved to the 20 stand outside the ABC Cinema.

In September, 1981 the 18B to Chanterlands Avenue was relegated to ‘extra journey’ status again. A new ‘extra journey’ on BH101/76 commenced in May 1982 to Cottingham Road garage via Beverley Road and was given the route number 17F. Further changes at this time occurred on licence BH101/88 with a new limited stop service from Cumbrian Way on North Bransholme to the District Centre and it carried the route number 30X. The existing 30S was extended to serve the St. Andrews School on Ennerdale, and the Sutton Fields service 19 was renumbered 70. September of that year saw the western terminus of the 96 revert back to the Ada Holmes circle on Greenwood Avenue from 37th Avenue. A year after it had commenced the 30X was discontinued in May 1983.

In December 1984, a new variant of licence BH101/76 commenced numbered 15B it ran via the 15 route as far as Hall Road/Fairfax Avenue. The joint 16 was also extended to Downfield Avenue on the Ings Bridge estate. It was joined in July 1985, by an express service to the estate numbered 16X. Two school routes were withdrawn after the end of the school year, these being 18S (BH101/81) and 96 (BH101/147), in May 1986 the 29/29A services were extended to commence from Preston Road/Southcoates lane before running via Greatfield to west Hull.

Radical changes were made to services on the Beverley Road corridor in preparation for deregulation. July 1986 saw the demise of the following services: BH101/76 15B, 15D, 17D, 17F, 17S 17W and 17X; BH101/81: 18, 18B; BH101/88: 30, 30D, 30S, 70; BH101/118: 16X; BH101/145: 29, 29A; BH101/148: 44, 44A; BH101/149: 49. Of these licences, BH101/81, /145, and /148 were all surrendered. Other changes were the 15A and 17A were renumbered 3A and 4A respectively while the 15C/17C circulars were renumbered 3 when travelling via Spring Bank and Beverley Road and 4 when operating in the reverse direction. Numbers were no longer changed at the timing point in Orchard Park. 3D and 4D represented journeys which commenced at Castle Street and 3S/4S represented services which served the schools on the estate. An early morning service between Greenwood Avenue, Orchard Park, Spring Bank and the Guildhall was numbered 53 in the “Earlybird” series. These were all, of course, on licence BH101/76.

Licence BH101/88 had three new services to Bransholme District Centre, 8A travelled via Sutton Park, 8A via Cheltenham Avenue and 8X via Sutton Fields. The old 31 was renumbered 54 in the “Earlybird” series and ran only one journey to the city centre. The joint service 16 on BH101/118 was now renumbered 7 and East Yorkshire ceased operations on the route.

The final licence BH101/149 had its remaining service 49A renumbered 74 in the new works series. All of the services outlined above ran from July until 25th October 1986 when deregulation took place and all remaining licences were finally surrendered.

Keith Easton
12/2011

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