After a six-year presence, Arriva’s Yorkshire Tiger subsidiary ceased serving the West Yorkshire city at the end of August, when Transdev’s Yorkshire Coastliner and local independent TLC Travel took over most of its tendered service contracts. KEITH JENKINSON reports on these developments
After serving the city for just over six years, Arriva’s Yorkshire Tiger business withdrew from Bradford on 30 August.
Although the brand was launched in 2013, Yorkshire Tiger’s origins date back five years earlier to May 2008 when three Centrebus directors and Arriva formed Centrebus Holdings as a joint venture (with 56% and 44% shares respectively) to purchase Stagecoach’s Huddersfield operations and also the Honley-based K-Line business.
It operated then as Centrebus and K-Line, but in September 2013 Arriva purchased Centrebus’s 56% shareholding in this and the ex-Arriva Midlands business at Hinckley and rebranded the Yorkshire operation as Yorkshire Tiger with a new orange livery designed by Best Impressions.
A two-tone blue version followed in April 2014 when it rebranded its three Airport Direct services to Leeds Bradford Airport as Flying Tiger.
At that time, two of these services were Yorkshire Tiger’s only…
