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Blue Bus purchased a depot in Huddersfield in August 1994, launching a service to Marsden in competition with Yorkshire Rider. This venture was later expanded into Bradford. Rider was taken over by FirstBus in 1996, and Blue Bus' West Yorkshire operation ceased. Just weeks later, FirstBus took over Blue Bus's main Bolton rival, GM Buses North. [2]
Jim Stones Coaches was established in 1968 as a charter operator. Upon the bus deregulation in October 1986 the company started bus operations with two routes, 596 from Leigh to Landside and 599 from Leigh to Higher Folds.
Diamond North West Enviro 200 at Piccadilly Gardens in January 2025. On 1 March 2015, South Lancs Travel was sold to Rotala and rebranded Diamond Bus North West. [9] [10] [11]On 1 September 2017, Rotala purchased the bus operations of Go Goodwins, resulting in the acquisition of 18 buses and the Eccles garage on Old Wellington Road, Eccles.
There are two major bus stations in both Wigan and Leigh town centres. Services operate from the bus stations to Bolton, Manchester, the Trafford Centre, St Helens and Chorley, as well as local inter-urban routes, with three high frequency services between Wigan and Leigh bus stations, operated by Stagecoach Manchester. Leigh, Atherton and ...
Until December 2012, First Greater Manchester also operated the Nightbus network in Wigan town centre, providing a number of late night services to various areas across Wigan, as well as the 598 service to Leigh, which allowed connection with the 39 service to and from Manchester. From 2 December 2012, the Wigan Nightbus network passed to ...
From Leigh and Atherton to Manchester via Tyldesley and Ellenbrook. It partial use of a former railway line to form a 4 miles (7 km) guided busway between Leigh, Tyldesley and Ellenbrook; it then joins the East Lancashire Road running on a bus lane. A Park and Ride site has been constructed where the road reaches the M60 motorway.
From Leigh, the V1 limited-stop bus service joins seven kilometres of guided busway to Ellenbrook, six kilometres of bus lanes on the East Lancashire Road and sections of reserved bus lanes through Salford and Manchester city centres. The V2 service from Atherton to Manchester joins the guided busway at Tyldesley.
However during the blackout in the 1939-1945 war and as the white bands faded, Bus Stop signs and flags became necessary and were provided by the company. The timetable up to 1939 had stated that in rural parts of the routes, the trolleybuses would pick up and set down passengers "anywhere within reason."