Remember Herries Road Bus Depot/Garage at Hillsborough?

[Sheffield History]

Not sure what road this is, but it's just across from Leppings Lane

Anyone remember it in service?

[boginspro]

1 hour ago, Sheffield History said:

Not sure what road this is, but it's just across from Leppings Lane

Herries Road garage on Herries Road viewed from Penistone Road (North) roundabout, though I didn't work at this garage I did get plenty of overtime from there when there was none available at the other garages. This must be after my time there, I don't recognise the livery on what looks like a Leyland National.

[madannie77]

That is a Sheffield & District Leyland National in a blue and white livery.

Sheffield & District was set up as a subsidiary of West Riding to operate tendered services in the Sheffield area with deregulation in 1986. They started with Leyland Nationals and then introduced Leyland Lynxes and ECW bodied Leyland Atlanteans. Some commercial routes were later added to the tenders.

Sheffield & District was bought by SYT in September 1989.

[boginspro]

15 minutes ago, madannie77 said:

That is a Sheffield & District Leyland National in a blue and white livery.

Sheffield & District was set up as a subsidiary of West Riding to operate tendered services in the Sheffield area with deregulation in 1986. They started with Leyland Nationals and then introduced Leyland Lynxes and ECW bodied Leyland Atlanteans. Some commercial routes were later added to the tenders.

Sheffield & District was bought by SYT in September 1989.

Thanks madannie77  , where was their garage please?

[madannie77]

They were initially based at Charlotte Road in the old Sheffield United Tours/National Express garage but moved to a new base in Orgreave.

From the Monopolies & Mergers Commision's report on SYT's acquisitions in 1989 (edited to remove the paragraph numbers and some financial details)

"S&D was the Sheffield branch operation of a Wakefield-based operator, West Riding Automobile Co Ltd (West Riding), itself a subsidiary of the NBC. It operated initially from the Charlotte Road garage of National Travel (East), another subsidiary of West Riding. In late 1986 West Riding was bought out by its management via a company named Caldaire Holdings Ltd (Caldaire). When National Travel (East), including the garage, was sold in 1987 to ATL (Holdings) the S&D operation relocated to a garage at Orgreave. 

S&D began bidding successfully for tendered routes, then after about six months it began operating some commercial services; initially these were mainly routes linking its existing tendered services, but gradually a number of independent commercial services were introduced. In response to this competition SYT established Compass Buses as a joint venture with a local operator, to compete with West Riding in its home territory

Over 75 per cent of S&D's mileage was in Sheffield; a further 20 per cent was in Rotherham, so that a total of 95 per cent was in South Yorkshire. Of S&D's business at acquisition about 38 per cent was commercial services, 31 per cent tendered services and 31 per cent part tendered and part commercial. Just prior to the merger it had 13 main routes and 46 service numbers; it employed 107 people and operated a fleet of 40 vehicles.

SYT's acquisition of the S&D goodwill and registered routes on 26 September 1989 was a transaction whereby SYT also transferred its interest in the Compass bus operation in Wakefield to Caldaire and paid a cash balance of £500,000. Caldaire retained the Orgreave garage, subject to a covenant not to use the premises for local bus services for three years. The employees were transferred, and as a separate arrangement SYT acquired 40 vehicles from the Caldaire group to maintain the business"

[boginspro]

8 minutes ago, madannie77 said:

They were initially based at Charlotte Road in the old Sheffield United Tours/National Express garage but moved to a new base in Orgreave

Thank you, I'll look for some pictures.

[madannie77]

I managed but two pictures of Sheffield & District buses, mainly due to not being resident in Sheffield during most of their existence. One is quite good, one is rubbish! Both buses are running without fleetnames and the second tells me that some of the Atlanteans were in service at the start, not introduced later as I stated previously.

This is the good one, taken on the rather overcast Monday 27th October 1986, the day after the deregulated era started.

 

and this is the rubbish one, taken on the same day

 

[boginspro]

8 minutes ago, madannie77 said:

I managed but two pictures of Sheffield & District buses, mainly due to not being resident in Sheffield during most of their existence. One is quite good, one is rubbish! Both buses are running without fleetnames and the second tells me that some of the Atlanteans were in service at the start, not introduced later as I stated previously.

This is the good one, taken on the rather overcast Monday 27th October 1986, the day after the deregulated era started.

Thank you, that paint job doesn't look too bad on the National but it doesn't do much for the Atlantean in my opinion. I have rarely seen anything to match the old Sheffield Transport colours, the version with the thin blue lines looked good on any vehicle.

[madannie77]

The livery was the West Riding "house style", which had blue for Sheffield & District, green for West Riding and red for Yorkshire Woollen. I agree that it really didn't look too good on double deckers.