A fun little article on How to brand or rebrand our bus routes One of the key parts of the Department for Transport’s National Bus Strategy is local branding based on community focus instead of operational needs. At present, there are some examples of best practice with Transdev and The Go-Ahead Group marketing its bus […]
Read More Fun With Bus Route BrandingForthcoming service changes for Oldham and Saddleworth bus passengers For Oldham’s bus passengers, there is little to report in April’s changes compared with Tameside’s changes. Stagecoach’s mere tinkering around the edges only affects one route.
Read More Oldham and Saddleworth Bus Service Changes, 11 April 2021As one hospital link closes, another one opens Renumbered 397 extended to North Manchester General Hospital; Little Gem (Mark II) increases Tameside presence on TfGM tendered routes; 217 reverts to being Ashton-under-Lyne to Manchester route; Timetable changes for Stagecoach routes with cuts to 336, 337 and 389 services. The Spring 2021 changes are a bit […]
Read More Tameside and Glossop Bus Service Changes, 11 April 2021Is the future orange and white or pink with yellow spots? Unless we know different by the end of May, we shall be bracing ourselves for a new era of franchised bus operations by 2025. There will be endless chat on social media and blogs as to what bus routes will change, the fares, the […]
Read More What Colour for Greater Manchester’s BusesMayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham goes for Bus Franchising Scheme Nearly four years after he was elected as Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham stuck to his pledge to reform Greater Manchester’s buses. Following a second consultation, he made his announcement at 1440 beside Stand E of Ashton-under-Lyne Interchange. The Free Trade Experiment with […]
Read More Franchised Buses Get The Green LightWith the possibility of bus franchising in Greater Manchester and improved local networks, has the government fallen in love with our buses? There are four things that the creator of this blog shares with Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, otherwise known as Prime Minister Boris Johnson MP. One of them is a lackadaisical approach to […]
Read More Bus Back Better: Towards a Second Bus Renaissance?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 TenAlmost 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 BeginnersWelcome 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 2021
