First Calderdale & Huddersfield

First Halifax, Calder Valley and Huddersfield

Various First buses in Huddersfield.
Parent	FirstGroup
Founded	2003, formerly First Calderline/First Huddersfield
Headquarters	Skircoat Road, Halifax Old Fieldhouse Lane, Huddersfield Millwood Garage, Halifax Road, Todmorden
Locale	Halifax, Kirklees, Calder Valley
Service area	Halifax, Huddersfield, Todmorden, Hebden Bridge, Ripponden, Holmfirth, Meltham, Brighouse, Bradford, Leeds, Keighley, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale
Service type	Bus services
Website	www.firstgroup.com

First Halifax, Calder Valley and Huddersfield (formerly known as FirstBus Calderdale & Huddersfield) is one of the bus companies serving the area of West Yorkshire, England. It forms part of FirstGroup, a company operating transport services across the British Isles and in North America. The company operates within the area covered by Metro, a public body responsible for helping to co-ordinate public transport services in the West Yorkshire area.

First Calderdale & Huddersfield is an amalgamation of First Halifax (formerly First Calderline) and First Huddersfield. The company of today originally formed part of the Yorkshire Rider company in the 1980s and 1990s, which operated most of the services in the West Yorkshire area. The company was formed in 1986 at the time of deregulation with the town suffix at the end of the name, Calderdale was Yorkshire Rider Halifax, Kirklees was Yorkshire Rider Huddersfield.

Yorkshire Rider continued operation of services until 1994 when the company was purchased by Badgerline Group, who merged with Grampian Regional Transport in 1995 to form the First Group. The services were renamed Rider Halifax and Rider Huddersfield in 1995 then renamed again the same year, with Rider Halifax changed to Calderline and would also incorporate the Todmorden operation of Yorkshire Rider and Rider Huddersfield changed to Kingfisher.

In 1996, the First logo started to appear on services and Calderline and Kingfisher were given their own individual livery, changing from the green and white of Yorkshire Rider. Although Kingfisher would keep green as its main colour, Calderline changed to a white and blue livery.

In 1998, the First prefix was adopted to the names of the companies, with Calderline becoming First Calderline and Kingfisher becoming First Kingfisher Huddersfield before being shortened to First Huddersfield.

At the turn of the century, the livery of the two companies changed to incorporate First Group's standard livery now seen on the majority of First services in the country.

First Calderline renamed itself again in the 2000s as First Halifax before the decision to merge the operation of the First services in West Yorkshire to be called First West Yorkshire, which would consist of First Bradford, First Leeds and First Calderdale & Huddersfield.

In 2008, First Huddersfield repainted one of their Alexander Royale's, 30843, in a commemorative livery to celebrate 125 years of buses in Huddersfield.

First Calderdale & Huddersfield operates services mainly in the Calderdale and Huddersfield areas but also run services into Bradford, Leeds, Wakefield, Burnley, Rochdale, Oldham and Manchester. The services operate from depots in Halifax, Huddersfield and Todmorden, while the 184 service, which operates in the Huddersfield area, is operated from First Greater Manchester's Oldham depot.