#AYearOfBuses 42: Manchester – East Didsbury – Stockport
Providing the backbone for one of Europe’s busiest bus corridors, the 42 is quite simply THE staple food of the Mancunian bus diet. The 42 runs from Manchester’s Piccadilly Gardens bus station, through the heart of the universities and out towards Fallowfield, East Didsbury and Stockport, in the south of the city. With a bus […]
#AYearOfBuses 41: Red Express Accrington – Ramsbottom – Manchester
We’re heading to the opposite side of Transdev territory for today’s winner on #AYearOfBuses – it’s The Blackburn Bus Company’s Red Express. Red Express is one of The Blackburn Bus Company’s flagship interurban routes. Using a fleet of smartly branded high-spec double deckers, it connects Accrington with Ramsbottom and Manchester, up to every 30 mins […]
#AYearOfBuses 34: Leigh – Manchester
We’re heading to Manchester for day 34 on #AYearOfBuses to check in on an interesting battle between regular and guided buses. The 34 and X34 is a long-standing route connecting Manchester with Salford and Leigh, in the borough of Wigan. Over the years, it’s been run by a number of operators, including both First and […]
#AYearOfBuses 8: Bolton – Manchester
With an illustrious history of over 90 years, Greater Manchester’s route 8 is next up for #AYearOfBuses. The 8 runs from Bolton into the heart of Manchester city centre, linking Farnworth, Kearsley and Pendleton with the city along the way. It’s one of Manchester’s oldest routes, and back in the day, it was one of the Manchester […]
50 shades of orange
Manchester’s annual Big Orange event took place this weekend, celebrating all things SELNEC and GM. We took a shameless nostalgia trip to the event, which took place at the Manchester Museum of Transport in Cheetham Hill. The annual gathering brings together all things SELNEC and GM. It celebrates the vehicles, the design and the heritage […]
Major rail improvements for Manchester
Network Rail has announced a series of major improvements for two of Manchester’s biggest stations, Piccadilly and Oxford Road. Under plans released as part of the Northern Hub development project, Piccadilly will get two additional through platforms, whilst Oxford Road will be widened and lengthened to accommodate longer trains. This work will allow four extra trains […]
Metrolink returns to Manchester Victoria
Metrolink trams will return to a radically rebuilt Manchester Victoria station from February. The announcement from Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) means that Manchester’s two main railway stations, Piccadilly and Victoria, will once again be directly connected via a light rail link. Trams will start and finish at Victoria for a short period during February whilst […]
Manchester gets MMCs
Stagecoach Manchester has taken delivery of 29 new ADL Enviro400 MMCs. Numbered 10401-29, the vehicles are the first Enviro400 MMCs for the group, and are all allocated to Manchester’s Sharston depot. The Enviro400 MMC (short for Major Model Change) is the second generation of the popular Alexander Dennis double decker. Available in integral form as […]
Stagecoach invests £13.5m in green buses
Stagecoach has announced today a £13.5m investment in green vehicles for it’s fleets in Manchester and London. In a press release, the group announced the order of 38 further ADL Enviro 400 hybrid electric double deckers for Manchester, and 17 biomethane gas buses for Sunderland. The order takes the total number of hybrid electrics in […]
Little Red launches with big campaign
Virgin Atlantic recently launched its ‘Little Red’ brand, flying between Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Manchester and London. Little Red aims to take market share not just from BA on short-haul and domestic flights, but on connecting long-haul flights to destinations across the globe. The service launched using Airbus A320 aircraft operating 26 flights daily from Heathrow – […]