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The 135 serves the following locations: [8] Manchester Piccadilly Gardens; Victoria; Cheetham; Cheetham Hill; Broughton Park; Heaton Park; Besses o' th' Barn; Bury Interchange; Route 135 primarily runs via the Bury Old Road, making the route more straightforward in comparison to route 163, since it does not need to serve Middleton bus station and Heywood on the Rochdale Road, as well as The ...
The bus station was first opened on the site of the demolished Manchester Infirmary in 1931 to serve as the new terminus of the various extensive regional express bus services run by Manchester and its partners that had to be curtailed under the Road Traffic Act 1930 and subsequent regulation of bus services. The station was extended in 1932/33 ...
Alexander Dennis Enviro400 acquired from Stagecoach Manchester at Piccadilly Gardens in January 2025. Metroline was founded in April 1989 as a business unit of London Regional Transport ahead of the privatisation of London bus services, being sold in October 1994 in a management buyout worth £20 million (equivalent to £50,246,000 in 2023). [2]
When the full route to Manchester commenced, it was initially numbered 35, [1] with the Manchester terminus at Exchange. It was numbered 92 on 10 January 1949, when tramway service was withdrawn and the Manchester terminus moved to Piccadilly Gardens. [2] It was owned and operated jointly by Manchester and Stockport Corporations. [3]
Greater Manchester Transport Centreline bus on display at the Museum of Transport, Greater Manchester. Transport across the Greater Manchester conurbation historically suffered from poor north–south connections due to the fact that Manchester's main railway stations, Piccadilly and Victoria, [2] [3] were built in the 1840s on peripheral locations outside Manchester city centre.
Some bus services serve The Trafford Centre tram stop directly, on routes 150 (Gorton–The Trafford Centre bus station) and 250 (Piccadilly Gardens–The Trafford Centre bus station). The Trafford Centre has its own bus station, serving a variety of routes. It is a 5-minute walk away from the tram stop, though there are direct connections ...
For East Didsbury railway station, and Parrs Wood bus station. Terminus of the South Manchester Line. Eccles : Eccles: Salford: Eccles: 21 July 2000: 2: 390,100: For Eccles Interchange. Terminus of the Eccles Line. Edge Lane: East Manchester: Tameside: Droylsden: 8 February 2013: 2/3: 198,000: Serves parts of East Manchester and Droylsden ...
Piccadilly Gardens. Piccadilly Gardens is a green space in Manchester city centre, England, on the edge of the Northern Quarter. It takes its name from the adjacent street, Piccadilly, which runs across the city centre from Market Street to London Road. The gardens also contain a bus station and a tram stop.