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Post by SF07 on Dec 20, 2016 23:39:40 GMT 1
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Post by SF07 on Dec 29, 2016 18:34:08 GMT 1
Following on from the Oldham Network Review consultation that took place over the last month, First Manchester are now doing another Network Review for services in the Middleton and Heywood areas. There'll be drop-in sessions in early January in the areas affected and there's an online survey available until 11 January. Any changes that may take place would happen in April 2017. Survey is similar to the Oldham one, in terms of what they're asking for (which places do you visit, what do you find important in journeys, any routes/destinations only available by changing buses). May be possible that this review could be linked to the proposed closure of Bury depot, as some of the destinations mentioned are in the Bury area (Bury town centre, Fairfield Hospital). www.firstgroup.com/greater-manchester/more/middleton-heywood-bus-network-review
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Post by MetrolineGA1511 on Jan 7, 2017 23:20:25 GMT 1
I understand when Bury and Dukinfield close, all Dukinfield operations will move to Oldham, all Bury - Manchester routes to Manchester Queen's Road and all Bury local including Boltonbound routes to Bolton. Mind you, with various reviews and tenders due, I have a feeling that not all current routes will survive reallocations to their intended new depots.
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Post by michael1971 on Jan 9, 2017 17:37:23 GMT 1
streetlites 63118 and 63153 have transferred from Rusholme to Oldham i suspect there will be more
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Post by michael1971 on Mar 1, 2017 18:39:04 GMT 1
streetlites 63112, 61353 and 61355 now back at Rusholme with 69179 now based at Oldham
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Post by SF07 on Apr 25, 2017 1:04:50 GMT 1
First Manchester's Bury and Tameside depots are now closed, which will now mean some interesting allocations of vehicles onto services from Bolton, Oldham and Queens Road depots.
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Post by michael1971 on Apr 26, 2017 10:41:21 GMT 1
First Manchester's Bury and Tameside depots are now closed, which will now mean some interesting allocations of vehicles onto services from Bolton, Oldham and Queens Road depots. most of Tamesides services are using the same streetlites and 56 reg darts all Tameside fleet apart from 37462 to 66 have gone to Oldham the B9s to Queens Rd
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Post by SF07 on Apr 26, 2017 22:34:41 GMT 1
A lot of the Citaros now at Oldham depot, working on the 58/59 and 425 routes. Service 135 is split between Bolton (evenings) and Queens Road (daytime) depots. Certainly weird seeing a E400 operating the route in the evenings.
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Post by michael1971 on Apr 27, 2017 17:10:30 GMT 1
A lot of the Citaros now at Oldham depot, working on the 58/59 and 425 routes. Service 135 is split between Bolton (evenings) and Queens Road (daytime) depots. Certainly weird seeing a E400 operating the route in the evenings. 60238 on short 350s twice this week also i have nocited a lot of errors on ukbuses firstbus fleet list for manchester
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Post by SF07 on Jun 5, 2017 22:33:47 GMT 1
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Post by SF07 on Jun 7, 2017 20:06:49 GMT 1
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Post by michael1971 on Aug 21, 2017 13:20:08 GMT 1
69230 had transffred back from First South West to Bolton as a bendie replacement others in are 37351, 66338, and on loan from Scotland 32671, 37278 and 37743
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Post by SF07 on Sept 18, 2017 21:50:05 GMT 1
First Manchester's Bolton and Rusholme depots are planning to go on strike on Mondays during October, starting from 2 October. The strike will affect the following services (services from Oldham and Queens Road depots are unaffected): - 2: Bolton-intu Trafford Centre via Swinton
- 8: Bolton-Manchester Shudehill via Pendlebury
- 36: Bolton-Manchester Piccadilly via Little Hulton
- 37: Bolton-Manchester Piccadilly via Farnworth & Swinton
- 41: Altrincham-Manchester Piccadilly via Sale & West Didsbury
- 42: East Didsbury-Manchester Piccadilly via Fallowfield
- 53: Cheetham Hill-Salford Shopping Centre via Gorton
- 68: Farnworth-intu Trafford Centre via Walkden
- 95: Bury-Salford Shopping Centre via Prestwich
- 135: Bury-Manchester Piccadilly via Whitefield (some evening journeys only - all daytime and some evening journeys operated by Queens Road depot)
- 162: Norden-Manchester Piccadilly via Heywood
- 163: Bury-Manchester Piccadilly via Heywood
- 468: Tottington-Jericho via Bury
- 471: Bolton-Rochdale via Bury
- 472/474: Bury-Ramsbottom circulars
- 501: Johnson Fold-Farnworth via Bolton
- 507: Bolton-Harwood
- 510/511: Bolton-Bury via Withins
- 524: Bolton-Bury via Radcliffe
- 561/562: Bolton-Withins circulars
- 571/572: Bolton-Great Lever circulars
- 575: Bolton-Horwich via Heaton
- 582: Bolton-Leigh via Atherton
- V1: Leigh-Manchester Royal Infirmary via Busway and Manchester city centre
- V2: Atherton-Manchester Royal Infirmary via Busway and Manchester city centre
- X39: Farnworth-Manchester Piccadilly via Walkden (most journeys - 0711 & 0734 to Manchester and 1650 from Manchester operated by Queens Road)
www.firstgroup.com/greater-manchester/news-and-service-updates/planned-changes/bus-drivers-strike-october-2017www.firstgroup.com/greater-manchester/news-and-service-updates/news/commuters-warned-potential-travel-disruption-due-0
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Post by westyorkshirebus on Sept 18, 2017 22:35:14 GMT 1
I hope the union members at Rusholme know what they are doing, as if First don't maintain some sort of decent service that can be relied on on the Wilmslow Road, that depot could be closed in an instant.
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Post by michael1971 on Dec 28, 2017 21:40:26 GMT 1
buses 32926, 30965 and 40336 all gone to PVS movements seen 33832/33 moved from Rusholme to Queens Rd then to Oldham with 37546 going to Queens rd also 37412 officially moved there but is still at Oldham
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Post by SF07 on Feb 9, 2018 21:35:02 GMT 1
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Post by MetrolineGA1511 on Feb 10, 2018 21:50:37 GMT 1
With Transdev taking over Rosso it seemed only a matter of time before First cut back on Bury & Rochdale local services. Their withdrawal of route 575 would give Arriva sole operation of those links, except that Diamond are due to run a similar service too. Dropping routes 571/72 is the biggest shock though. Just like in Manchester First are more interested in interurban routes (plus route 42), it seems that they may be heading the same way in Bolton due to the competition. I think that First Manchester will eventually just cover mainly route 42, Oldham local routes, and Manchester / Oldham / Rochdale / Bury / Bolton interurban services.
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Post by SF07 on Aug 1, 2018 22:17:50 GMT 1
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Post by michael1971 on Aug 3, 2018 17:02:30 GMT 1
buses 30957, 53148, 53150 seem to have dissappered from OM not seen since April
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Post by SF07 on Aug 17, 2018 20:03:22 GMT 1
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Post by SF07 on Sept 5, 2018 21:37:51 GMT 1
First Manchester have posted on their Twitter page that contactless payment will be available on their buses a little sooner than originally planned, being available from from 17 September.
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Post by michael1971 on Sept 15, 2018 7:53:20 GMT 1
bus allocation changes have seen 37384/37385/66933 move to Oldham also 53138 in from Essex and 53065 from Hampshire & Dorset both at Oldham
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Post by michael1971 on Oct 27, 2018 8:25:43 GMT 1
First Rusholme depot to close in January with routes moved to Queens Rd
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Post by michael1971 on Nov 20, 2018 16:21:03 GMT 1
30948 gone from Oldham to Eastern Counties this month
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Post by SF07 on Dec 17, 2018 22:33:17 GMT 1
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