YORKSHIRE TRACTION

The 'Yorkshire Traction' Company Limited was formed in 1902 as The Barnsley & District Electric Traction Company Limited. It operated trams around the Barnsley locality until around 1930. In 1928, prior to the trams being withdrawn, the company title changed from the Barnsley & District Traction Company Limited (the 'electric' part of the name being dropped some years earlier).
'Tracky' - as the company was affectionately referred to - was sold by the Tory Government in 1986 to the management team lead by Frank Carter. Until selling the business to Stagecoach on 14 December 2005, Carter expanded the business by purchasing other operators including:

★ Barnsley & District (formed in July 1990 when Traction bought the bus business of Tom Jowitt Travel of Tankersley)

★ Lincolnshire RoadCar Company

★ Lincoln City Transport

★ Andrews (Sheffield) Ltd

★ Yorkshire Terrier

★ South Riding

★ Strathtay

★ Methans

Yorkshire Traction and its subsidiaries were owned by The Traction Group, which was owned by Frank Carter, together with small shares owned by a Carter Family Trust and employees who worked for the company at privatisation.
Yorkshire Traction now operates as Stagecoach Yorkshire.

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★ Yorkshire Traction

★ Stagecoach Yorkshire