There are various WYPTE vehicles in preservation, here is a selection

Leyland Atlantean with Roe body SUG591M

Daimler CVG6 with Roe body 574CNW

Bristol LHS6L with ECW body MUA45P

Leyland Cub with Optare body C807KBT

Freight Rover Sherpa 350D with Dormobile body B818YKR

Freight Rover Sherpa 350D with Optare body D705HUA

Other Surviving WYPTE Vehicles

For our list of the status of all WYPTE vehicles with most survivors identified, click here for the fate MS Excel file. This will open in Excel - if your computer prompts you to download it, choose desktop, then once it has saved, double-click to open. See above if you do not have MS Excel on your PC.

There are various other preserved/still in service ex- West Yorkshire PTE/Yorkshire Rider vehicles. Using the new DVLA online Vehicle Enquiry service, our members/friends, Michael Highman, Martyn Bryant, Richard Lamb and James Fairchild, have prepared a list of all former WYPTE vehicles, which can be found on our group web server here. This is a spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel format. If you do not have MS Excel on your computer, may I recommend that you down load a free spreadsheet program Open Office dot Org which I can personally recommend. There is bad news and good news to be seen on this, for example a few Leeds Atlanteans (inc one Weymann PDR1/1, one Roe PDR2/1 and a few of the AN68/2R Leeds jumbo "Tommy Lord Box" examples like 591) survive in some form, one WYPTE national is around, some coaches survive as do some minibuses, there are a few Olympians still in service (in Yorkshire and elsewhere, including 5001 and 5002 in Chester), there are also quite a few WYPTE Roe bodied Atlanteans and Fleetlines in preservation. One of the mark 1 metrobuses in in preservation, and another was still in service until recently. Two of the Alexander bodied metrobuses survive, however there are believed to be no mark 2 metrobuses left in existance in this country (but 7604 and 7605 were exported to Sri Lanka as part of the Asia Bus Response and can be glimpsed in this picture (clue: purple internal window surrounds)). To numerically go to the end of the WYPTE fleet, two Leyland Leopard dual purpose vehicles, 8501 and 8534, survive in preservation. However, without wanting to dwell on it, there is bad news. The worst news is probably that the dual purpose Duple Dominant bodied Tigers are now believed extinct, with the last survivors 1662 and 1671 now being finally cut in Hardwick's yard, Barnsley. It appears though there are no surviving MCW MetroRiders and the same is true of the Iveco minibuses (unless you know differently). No MCW Atlanteans (as delivered to Leeds or Bradford) survive and the later MCW product the Scania Metropolitan is also extinct, as the once preserved 2612 was cut up in Barnsley some years ago. The unique Volvo Ailsa 3480 was also cut up for spares by Derby. Also bad news is that none of the Northern Counties bodied Fleetlines (delivered to WYPTE) survive to our knowledge.

Surviving pre-WYPTE vehicles - vehicles delivered to the constituents of WYPTE - Leeds City Transport, Bradford City Transport, Huddersfield Corporation Transport/Huddersfield JOC and Halifax Passenger Transport/Todmorden JOC/Calderdale JOC - I am indebted to various friends for providing most of the information below - people are credited on the group history/thanks page

Surviving Leeds City Transport vehicles are listed on the Annual Leeds Fleetlists site - click here to go to the LCT list

Surviving Bradford City Transport vehicles

Surviving Bradford City Transport trolleybuses are listed on the Bradford Trolleybus Association's Preserved Bradford Trolleybuses page, to which we can add Bradford City Transport tram 104, which is at the Bradford Industrial Museum

Surviving Huddersfield vehicles - comprehensive information on Huddersfield vehicles can be found on the website of the Huddersfield Passenger Transport Group

For completeness, surviving Huddersfield trolleybuses are listed below. No Huddersfield trams are believed to survive

Surviving Halifax/Todmorden/Calderline JOC vehicles

No Halifax/Todmorden trolleybuses/trams are believed to survive. For competeness however I list the known Hebble survivors (Hebble was split into Calderdale JOC and Yorkshire Woollen District)

DJX 351D is listed with the Calderdale JOC vehicles, however this was new as Hebble 351, became Hebble 625, the Yorkshire Woollen District 147, then Halifax JOC 294, then the same number with Calderdale JOC, then 3294 with WYPTE! It was last taxed in the UK in Oct 1984.

If anyone can add to/correct the above, I would be most interested to hear from you. In particular, if the ones where we only have a "many years ago" reference can be discounted with a confirmed report of scrapped, then that would be good to know also. I intend to create a similar list to the above for Bradford and Huddersfield over time.

Requests

I am also looking to do more work on the FATE spreadsheet - does anyone want to help? I would particularly like to include all One-Man-Operated/Rear Engined Vehicles operated by Leeds/Bradford/Halifax/Huddersfield/Todmorden, and all the minibuses operated by Yorkshire Rider in the 1980s/1990s. Please Contact Us if you'd like to help. All that is needed is access to http://www.vehiclelicence.gov.uk website.

Does anyone have a list of the various ancilliary vehicles to serve WYPTE/Yorkshire Rider over the years? I am particularly trying to find out details of the towtrucks and the land rover vehicles used by Rider.

Regarding the 6001-6191 batch of Atlanteans, does anyone have a definitive list of what was delivered with which moquette (upper and lower). Downstairs there was (apparently) a green moquette (like on the Metropolitans) then two different versions of yellow/orange moquette and then the London style rectangles (yellow/orange/brown/black) whilst upstairs was either green or red leatherette.

Also in this batch, can anyone confirm which vehicles were delivered with a large side route number box, and which had the smaller one at roof level? We believe that the changeover is in the 6121-6150 batch, possibly at 6135/6136, but maybe there were some random ones also?

Regarding the Roe Olympians, does anyone know where the change of upstairs seating from brown leatherette to London style rectangle (yellow/orange/brown/black) moquette took place in the delivery order? Around 5120/5125 seems to ring a bell, can anyone confirm? From my own memories, the earlier ones allocated to Leeds (such as 5033, 5035 and 5036 all of which I remember well as my school transport along with 5507/5508) had the brown leatherette, whereas 5143/5144 had moquette upstairs - clarification needed though.

if you can help with any of the above, please do contact us as per the link at the top of this page