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Metrolink: The Next Generation

In Altrincham, Cheshire, Lancashire, Manchester, Metrolink, North West, Trams, Transport, Travel on February 3, 2010 at 10:35 pm

Do their new trams boldly go where no other light rail vehicle has gone before?  East of the M60 finally gets around to test Metrolink’s new order. Was it worth the wait? We shall see.

For anybody who has stuck with the Metrolink through its very thinnest (thanks to the engineering works), I sympathise with you. I have been an occasional user of Greater Manchester’s much maligned and stretched light rail system

Let There Be Light!

In Association Football, Lancashire, Mossley, Non League Football, North West, Northern Premier League, Tameside on January 23, 2010 at 11:35 pm

Help Mossley Football Club get out of the Dark Ages. Literally.

30 years ago, Mossley were the team to watch in the Tameside area. Whilst Hyde United and Stalybridge Celtic were plodding along in the Cheshire County League, Mossley won the Northern Premier League title and had a trip to Wembley (despite losing 2-1 to Dagenham in the FA Trophy final). This was their finest hour.

30 years on, the club had become penniless. The last 15 years

Is This The 343? The Not So Perfect Ten

In Bus deregulation, Buses, Dukinfield, England, FirstGroup, Independent operators, Mossley, Oldham, Operators, Scotland, Stagecoach, Stalybridge, Stuart Vallantine, Subsidised services, Tameside, Tendered services, Transport, Travel, Wales on January 19, 2010 at 11:07 pm

10 other 343 bus routes across the UK

Our first Not So Perfect Ten of 2010 has pushed the geek envelope even further. In the last five years since East of the M60 and StuartVallantine.co.uk came to existence, there has been many a reference to the creators’ favoured bus route.

That of course is the 343, from Hyde to Mossley and Oldham, via Dukinfield, Stalybridge and Lees.