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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.
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 ...
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[7] [8] In October 2009, nine stations on the former Oldham Loop Line closed for conversion, [9] and future plans include the use of tram-trains to allow Metrolink to serve existing National Rail stations. [10] Manchester Piccadilly, the principal station for the City of Manchester and busiest station in Greater Manchester by number of passengers.
Alexander Dennis Enviro400 acquired from Stagecoach Manchester at Piccadilly Gardens bus station in January 2025. ComfortDelGro, through its London based Metroline subsidiary, took an early interest in Transport for Greater Manchester's franchised Bee Network bus services, recruiting former Arriva Yorkshire regional manager Patrick Sibley in September 2022 to help in its bidding for Tranches 2 ...
Central Park station is not served by any direct bus service but several services do stop nearby. First Greater Manchester services 88, which runs a circular route with buses running to Manchester Piccadilly Gardens or to Manchester Shudehill via White Moss, Higher Blackley and North Manchester General Hospital stop on Northampton Road, along with Stagecoach Manchester service 80, which runs ...
The bus station is also served by night buses because of its location near the Printworks and Free bus around the city Route 2. Coach services are operated by Flixbus and Megabus. In April 2009, the Manchester Megabus stop moved from the Chorlton Street coach station to Shudehill Interchange. Flixbus began intercity services to Manchester ...