2018 World Cup of GM Bus Routes: A Rural Bolton Bus Route, and an Urban One

Game 3, Group A (McGuinness): 8 v. 535  

For our seventh fixture we look at two Bolton bus routes that are polar opposites of each other. One which has featured in Phoenix Nights, and another which stops near the television transmitter where your first episode was transmitted from in January 2001.

2018 World Cup of GM Bus Routes: Scouthead or Greengate?

Game 2, Group H (Walton): 350 v. 415  

For our sixteenth fixture we look at two more scenic bus routes via Oldham. One of them is the sole preserve of single decker buses due to a bridge it passes along the way. The other one is an important link with the Saddleworth villages.

2018 World Cup of GM Bus Routes: Marsden Moor or Tandle Hill?

Game 1, Group H (Walton): 184 v. 409  

For our fifteenth fixture we look at two rather scenic bus routes via Oldham. One is likely to be held up by the school run; the other one, more likely to be sheep.