Bus operators in Leeds have a announced a raft of changes to services across the city.
In West Leeds, the changes will affect the number 15 through Armley, Gamble Hill and Farnley and 81 Armley and Pudsey services.
Here’s a full list of changes, which will start from 26 October 2025:
1 1A Wakefield • Pinderfields Hospital • Robin Hood • Hunslet • Leeds • Headingley • West Park • Holt Park
Operated by Yorkshire Buses
This service will be significantly revised and reduced to two journeys each way. Service 1A will be withdrawn, and there will no longer be any journeys operating between Holt Park and Leeds, or via Pinderfields Hospital.
15 Leeds • Armley • Gamble Hill • Old Farnley
Operated by First
Due to access issues all journeys will now operate clockwise round Gamble Hill. The timetable will remain unchanged.
61 61A 61E St James’s Hospital • East End Park • Hunslet Shopping Centre • John Charles Centre
Operated by Yorkshire Buses
Evening journeys after 1900 (service 61E) will be withdrawn. These were previously introduced commercially on a trial basis in January 2025. Daytime journeys until around 1900 will remain unchanged.
81 Leeds • Armley • Pudsey
Operated by Squarepeg
Some journeys will be retimed by around 5 minutes.
116 Wakefield • Horbury • Ossett • Gawthorpe • Shaw Cross • White Rose Centre • Leeds
Operated by Yorkshire Buses
This service will be rerouted in Shaw Cross via Windsor Road and Chidswell Lane. Some journeys will be retimed by up to 5 minutes
168 Leeds • Woodlesford • Swillington • Allerton Bywater • Castleford
Operated by Arriva
Many journeys will be retimed by around 5-10 minutes.
253 Leeds • Birkenshaw • Gomersal • Heckmondwike
Operated by Squarepeg
This new service will operate hourly on weekdays between approximately 0700 and 1800 from Leeds to Heckmondwike via Birkenshaw and Gomersal.
DalesBus Services
Sun 26 Oct 2025
Winter DalesBus services start.
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