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The company had over 35 routes and ran in the Bolton and Wigan areas. Several of its services were run on behalf of Transport for Greater Manchester, [2] including Bolton's Metroshuttle service, which Maytree ran from January 2010 [3] until December 2012.
Diamond Bus (North West) Ltd., [2] trading as Diamond North West, is a bus operator providing services in the districts of Bolton and Wigan in Greater Manchester, England, operating an extensive commercial network as well as franchised Bee Network bus services on contract to Transport for Greater Manchester.
As of March 2024, the First Greater Manchester fleet consisted of over 65 buses, over half of which are operated on franchsised Bee Network services. [27] Prior to the sale of the Bolton and Queens Road depots in 2019, First Greater Manchester operated a fleet of 583 buses, consisting mainly of Wrightbus-bodied Volvos and Alexander Dennis ...
Mercedes-Benz Citaro 0.530 acquired from Diamond North West with Bee Network temporary stickers at Trafford Centre in December 2024. In December 2022, the Greater Manchester Combined Authority announced that Go North West had won the first round of franchising to run the first Bee Network bus services in Bolton from September 2023, acquiring routes 8, 20-22, 163 and 471 from Diamond North West.
Services include the 36 and 37 routes between Bolton and Manchester via Farnworth (37), Little Hulton (36) and Swinton. The 38 route runs through Walkden and terminates at Manchester Piccadilly or Logistics North in Bolton. The 20 bus takes passengers from Walkden to the Trafford Centre via Monton, [42] and the 29 takes people to Media City. [43]
In July 2005, Arriva purchased Blue Bus & Coach Services for £2.9 million, which almost doubled their presence in Greater Manchester. [13] In January 2009, the Wales operation was split from Arriva North West as Arriva Buses Wales with the Arriva North West name resurrected for the North West England operations.
Stagecoach Manchester [1] is a major bus operator in Greater Manchester, operating franchised Bee Network bus services on contract to Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM). It is the largest UK bus subsidiary of Stagecoach Group outside of Greater London , as well as the largest within the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester by ...
The transport infrastructure of Greater Manchester is built up of numerous transport modes and forms an integral part of the structure of Greater Manchester and North West England – the most populated region outside of South East England which had approximately 301 million annual passenger journeys using either buses, planes, trains or trams in 2014. [2]