Two more late additions to the Spring 2022 service changes
In the last 24 hours, we have learned of two more service changes affecting Oldham and Tameside bus routes.
Continue reading “Oldham and Tameside Bus Service Changes Extra (24 April 2022)”In the last 24 hours, we have learned of two more service changes affecting Oldham and Tameside bus routes.
Continue reading “Oldham and Tameside Bus Service Changes Extra (24 April 2022)”How many black cats have the great travelling public of Oldham and Saddleworth run over to effect this spring’s set of changes? The latest set of service changes have seen Oldham and Rochdale at the sharpest end of the cutbacks.
Continue reading “Oldham and Saddleworth Bus Service Changes, 24 April 2022”More than not, the biggest changes to Tameside’s bus routes occur in springtime. For the last two decades, the biggest cuts and operator changes are made at around that time of year.
Continue reading “Tameside and Glossop Bus Service Changes, 24 April 2022”If the latest set of service changes for Tameside and Glossop bus passengers were a horror film, it gives us great pleasure to say it is Andy Pandy Takes the Ghost Train instead of Night of the Living Dead or Threads. This autumn’s set of changes are minor one – mainly the retiming of existing routes.
Continue reading “Tameside and Glossop Bus Service Changes, 31 October 2021”We are now 35 years into what Andy Burnham called The Free Market Experiment. As with any free market experiment, there is a smaller number of winners than losers. Before the first lockdown, having a bus company and a rail franchise was a licence to print money for some operators.
Continue reading “Greater Manchester’s Most Shocking Bus Service Changes Since 1986: The Not So Perfect Ten”For Oldham and Saddleworth bus users, there are very few changes of note. Besides three Stagecoach Manchester routes, there is welcome news for nocturnal ‘9 bus passengers.
Continue reading “Oldham and Saddleworth Bus Service Changes, 05 September 2021”For the first time in a while, Tameside’s latest service changes make for more positive reading. Evening journeys will be boosted on one of our trunk routes and Hyde is going to get direct bus links to Manchester Airport, Sheffield and Macclesfield.
Continue reading “Tameside and Glossop Bus Service Changes, 05 September 2021”Within a week of HM Government’s Freedom Day®, it will be business as usual for Oldham and Saddleworth bus users. As with our fellows in Tameside and Glossop, there will be usual summer times on Stagecoach’s routes, and the discontinuation of peak hour duplicates.
Continue reading “Oldham and Saddleworth Bus Service Changes, 25 July 2021”Within a week of HM Government’s Freedom Day®, some degree of normality is restored on our bus routes. Firstly, with it being summertime (and the schools breaking up for the five-week or six-week holidays), we shall be seeing the faster summer times on many of Stagecoach’s routes. Secondly, with the requirements for social distancing scrapped, our peak hour duplicates on trunk routes have gone the same way.
Continue reading “Tameside and Glossop Bus Service Changes, 25 July 2021”Almost a week after the abolition of COVID restrictions and social distancing measures, there will be further changes for Oldham’s bus passengers besides the usual service changes. From the 25th July 2021, a significant number of bus routes will see a change of stand position at Oldham Bus Station.
Continue reading “Oldham Bus Station Changes, 25 July 2021”