The even longer awaited fourteenth part of our informal look at bus operations For beginners. Once upon a time, quite some time ago, a certain Robert Stephenson created the world’s first true inter-city railway line. By September 1830, it carried its first passengers and goods between Liverpool and Manchester city centres. Today, Liverpool Lime Street […]
Read More Duffers’ Guide to Bus Operations #14: Lowbridge BusesTen iconic buses for beginners – or anybody old enough to pay child fare without an iGo card For many people, a bus is just a bus. A box on six wheels for 16 or 90 people. A way of getting home from school, or from home to the shops. These boxes with windows and […]
Read More A Child’s Guide to Iconic Buses: The Not So Perfect TenThis month’s semi-reopened (AND SLIGHTLY LATE RUNNING) window on the shop windows As we speak, we are now into the second month of what is our third lockdown in England. Once again, non-essential retail premises remain closed, as do our public houses. With recent good news on the COVID-19 vaccines and a drop in the […]
Read More Retail Comings and Goings in Tameside, February 2021: The Ashton Review of ShopsAlmost Everything you need to know about Stalybridge bus station Stalybridge bus station is a modest, unstaffed bus station with a single island platform. It has four stands and lacks layover facilities. You may argue that the town has two bus stations because of its four stops on Armentieres Square. In recent times, the stops […]
Read More Stalybridge Bus Station for BeginnersStagecoach Group UK Managing Director Carla Stockton-Jones on the importance of apprenticeships Amongst the terrible human cost of the Covid-19 crisis, the impact on our country’s young people and their prospects is of major concern. Research published last year by the Resolution Foundation suggested that youth unemployment will not return to pre-pandemic levels for at […]
Read More National Apprenticeship Week 2021: The Bus Industry Builds Back BetterEver wondered which hill is which in Stalybridge? Our guide might help you There is a certain mystique about the Pennine foothills that frame Stalybridge, Mossley and Dukinfield. Especially when you leave the centre of Stalybridge proper towards the wilderness. A ‘wilderness’ that is accessible from the town centre on public and private transport, foot […]
Read More From Buckton Castle to Harrop Edge: A Very Rough Guide to Stalybridge’s HillsFeast of the M60 weighs up Holland’s latest addition With the pandemic still doing its worst, you could be forgiven for thinking “hey, Feast of the M60 could be doing Banana Bread reviews.” Or that East of the M60 will be doing a three-page review on hand sanitisers with an equivalent of the Zzap! 64 […]
Read More Holland’s Potato and Meat Family Pie: A Feast of the M60 Pie ReviewWelcome upgrade for local Ashton and Hyde routes For regular readers used to seeing a separate Oldham and Saddleworth bulletin, this edition covers the Oldham, Tameside and Glossop areas due to fewer service changes in Oldham. Sunday journeys added to 335, 342 and 387 routes; 41As partially replaced by Sunday and Bank Holiday 335s; 394 […]
Read More Oldham, Tameside and Glossop Bus Service Changes, 31 January 2021East of the M60 looks at the possibility of trams returning to Stalybridge It is 90 years ago since Stalybridge saw its last trams. Back then, the trams were facing competition with local express bus routes. In 1931, the Stalybridge, Hyde, Mossley, and Dukinfield Joint Tramway and Electricity Board began to phase out trams and […]
Read More Metrolink Extensions: Next Stop, Stalybridge?Stagecoach Group becomes first UK bus operator to invest in national roll-out of new bridge alert technology £4m project to strengthen existing safety measures to prevent bridge strikes; Enhancement to GreenRoad’s leading driver safety and fuel-efficiency system; 8,000 buses covered in England, Scotland and Wales by summer 2021.
Read More Low Bridge Strikes Scuppered by Bridge Alert System
