Yorkshire motorway service Wakefield-Leeds in 20 minutes
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• On New Year's day, Yorkshire started its first new-type local express service, using M1 on a local section between Wakefield and Leeds, reaching speeds of up to 60 mph on the four-mile motorway stretch of the 9+ mile journey, and reducing the running time between the two cities from 35min by normal stopping services, to only 20min on the new facility.
The new service from Wakefield bus station to Cross York Street bus station of the West Riding Automobile Co. Ltd. in the heart of Leeds, leaves Wakefield every half hour from 7.15 to 8.45am. inclusive, and returns from Leeds via the Motorway between 4.45 and 6.15pm.
A spokesman for West Riding said the aim was to generate new traffic from private motorists, who might be persuaded to leave their vehicles at home, to avoid city centre congestion, and not specifically to take passengers from the company's normal stopping stage carriage services between Leeds and Wakefield. The single fare on the new service is 2s and regular travellers can
buy a book of 10-journey tickets for 17s 6d. This is probably the first new service in Great Britain to be started by a northern unit of the National Bus Company.
Single decker 49-seater Leyland Leopards with Plaxton coachwork are being used on the service which is number 210, as against service 10 for the Wakefield-Leeds stage carriage services which continue as hitherto.