This month’s semi-quarantined window on the shop windows By the time you have read this, you may have had your first pint in a pub in 14 weeks. Instead of celebrating this, your first pint in a pub since lockdown might be your last for a while because of recent redundancy announcements. You might be…
Category: North West
Shopping With Confidence, Tameside Style: Ashton Review of Shops Extra
Ashton Review of Shops Extra looks at the reopening of ‘non essential’ retailers For some commentators, the 15 June 2020 would be seen as the day when normality returned to the High Street. With the reopening of ‘non essential’ retailers, it has been represented as part of our recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Back By Unpopular Demand: Northern’s Pacer Units
Nodding Donkeys ‘home’ till Christmas Today, East of the M60 has learned that a small number of the universally derided Class 142 Pacer units will be making a comeback on Northern rail services. Thirteen of the units will be reinstated to provide extra capacity, and to ensure that social distancing practices will be maintained.
Tameside and Glossop Bus Service Changes, 19 April 2020
The latest, more permanent (?) service charges in Tameside and Glossop Demise of MCT Travel operations sees Stagecoach gains; Withdrawal of 387 route sees severance of north-south connections with Stalybridge – and direct route with Hattersley; Super-size 356 given go-ahead. With the COVID-19 pandemic, you may be forgiven for thinking “Not again” with timetable changes…
Thornton-Cleveleys Brass Band, 02 February 2020: Sunday Brass at the Boarshurst Band Club
A neat concert with a good mix of old favourites and modern classics Over the last week, the village of Thornton and its neighbouring town has been in the news. That being the small matter of a railway line which saw its last passengers in 1970 and its last freight train in 1999. If successful,…
Retail Comings and Goings in Tameside, February 2020: The Ashton Review of Shops
This month’s window on the shop windows Retirement leads to closure of popular Stalybridge shop; Iconic Audenshaw public house faces demolition; Plus all the usual retail movements from the Half Way House to Arnfield Towers. Welcome to the second Ashton Review of Shops for 2020, which would also be the first one since leaving the…
Northern Nationalised: Franchise Transfers from Arriva Rail North to DfT
Northern franchise taken over by DfT as Operator of Last Resort from the 01 March After several rumours and persistent lobbying by Northern English political figures in the last six months, it was announced today that Arriva lost its Northern rail franchise. Under the Anglo-German company’s tenure, the rail franchise was dogged by poor service,…
Westoe Brass Band: Sunday Brass at the Boarshurst Band Club, 19 January 2020
Another tight performance from Westoe Brass Band After being forced to choose from singers dressed as yellow ducks or unicorns, or ice-based pratfalls, the people of Saddleworth (and Boarshurst Silver Band’s avid streaming audience) were saved from such misfortune last night. At 7pm, Westoe Brass Band began the 2020 season of concerts in style.
Oldham and Saddleworth Bus Service Changes, 26 January 2020
More tinkering around the edges: nothing too drastic Unlike the previous set of changes which has butchered Greenfield’s bus network, the latest set of changes are a more sedate affair. Usually, this is a lull before the storm of post-Easter changes.
Tameside and Glossop Bus Service Changes, 26 January 2020
Traffic chaos curtails 150 route 150 route curtailed to begin in Gorton; Retiming tweaks for 389 and 350 routes. As is the norm for the January set of changes, the first set of bus service changes of 2020 is a sedate affair. If you live in Stalybridge or Ashton-under-Lyne, only two routes are subject to…
Retail Comings and Goings in Tameside, January 2020: The Ashton Review of Shops
This month’s window on the shop windows Happy New Year! Ashton Town Hall refurbishment; Plus all the usual retail movements from Debdale Park to Woolley Bridge. We would like to wish all our readers a Happy New Year and thank you for supporting The Ashton Review of Shops in 2019. We hope you will do…
Tameside’s Christmas and New Year Bus Service Updates (2019)
Details of Christmas and New Year’s Day bus services in Tameside and surrounding area for 2019 – 2020 With only days to go till Christmas Day, it is that time again on East of the M60. It is our look at what we are about to receive bus-wise over the yuletide period.
