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In 1932, the York–West Yorkshire Joint Committee was formed, as part of a joint venture between the West Yorkshire Road Car Company and City of York Council. Following the deregulation of bus services and introduction of the Transport Act 1985, such joint ventures were prohibited, with West Yorkshire Road Car taking full ownership.
In 1987, West Yorkshire Road Car Company was sold in a management buyout to the AJS Group, owned by former East Yorkshire Motor Services managing director, Alan Stephenson. Operations in York were subsequently rebranded as York City & District.
In 1990, the York-based operations of AJS Group were sold to Yorkshire Rider.[1][2] Four years later, Rider York was included in the sale of Yorkshire Rider to Badgerline.[3]
In 1995, First Group was formed, following the merger of Badgerline and GRT Group.[4][5] In 1998, Rider York was rebranded as First York. In the same year, First Group took ownership of Glenn Coaches, followed by York Pullman two years later.
In 2001, in advance of the launch of the York Metro bus network in September 2001, First York began a major fleet refreshment programme, taking delivery of a new low-floor fleet of 98 buses, including 12 double deckers, 53 single-deckers and 33 midibuses, replacing a majority of the company's pre-existing bus fleet.[6][7]
In February 2007, the company introduced an hourly express service between York and Leeds Bradford Airport, branded York Aircoach.[8] Initially operating with Volvo B10M coaches, the service was later revised to use single-deck buses and rebranded York Airlink. The service was withdrawn in April 2009.[9][10]
In July 2008, a fleet of 17 Volvo B7RLE/Wright Eclipse Urban single-deck vehicles were delivered for the park and ride network, with 25 articulated Mercedes-Benz Citaro arriving the following year.[11] The delivery saw the replacement of Volvo B7L/Wright Eclipse Metro and articulated Volvo B7LA/Wright Eclipse Fusion single-deck vehicles formerly allocated to the network, which were introduced at the turn of the decade.
In April 2009, the company launched a half-hourly express service, which ran between York and Leeds via Tadcaster and Seacroft – competing with Transdev Yorkshire Coastliner. The trial was unsuccessful and the service was subsequently withdrawn in August 2010.[12][13]
In June 2014, the park and ride site at Askham Bar was expanded and relocated to a new 1,100-space site – as part of a £22 million project. In the same month, a new site was opened at Poppleton Bar, with services operated by a fleet of fully-electric Optare Versa.[14][15][16]
In August 2015, First York commenced operation of a contract to provide services on behalf of the University of York.[17][18][19][20] The high-frequency services (66 & 67) are operated by a fleet of Volvo B9TL/Wright Gemini double-deck vehicles, branded in a two-tone pink and purple livery.
Following an order in May 2019,[21][22] a fleet of 21 fully-electric Optare MetroDecker double-deck vehicles were introduced into service in July 2020.[23][24]
In March 2022, it was confirmed by the Department for Transport that the City of York Council had been awarded a total of £8.4 million to support the purchase of 44 fully electric buses in the city – investment which would bring First York's fully-electric fleet to 77.[25][26]
The operations of First York and First West Yorkshire are to be remerged into a First North and West Yorkshire business unit on 1 October 2022, with First West Yorkshire's current Managing Director Paul Matthews temporarily overseeing operations of the new business unit until a new Managing Director can be recruited. This is part of major changes to the FirstGroup's senior management, which will see the merger of First's ten regional bus operations across the United Kingdom into six business units.[27][28]
Construction of the Sheffield & Chesterfield line was authorised by the Midland Railway Act of 1864 but it was not until Monday 2 February 1870 that the line and Dronfield station were opened to traffic. It was designed by the Midland Railway company architect John Holloway Sanders.[1]
The line was known as the "New Road" to differentiate from the "Old Road" built by the North Midland Railway, which took an easier route along the Rother Valley and bypassed Sheffield. The station is on the long climb up the Drone valley to Bradway Tunnel at the point where the gradient steepens from 1 in 201 to 1 in 102.
The station had single storey wooden buildings on both platforms. The main buildings, including booking office and staff offices, were on the "up" platform. The smaller building on the other platform contained a waiting room and a ladies' waiting room.
To the south of the passenger station, on the land now used as a car park, was the goods station with a brick-built warehouse and several sidings.
The original BRf

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