Manchester bus franchising

[SF07]

RE: Manchester bus franchising
Manchester Evening News reporting that First Manchester have lost the Vantage services and that they will come under the new contracts won by Go North West.

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/...d-25865786

Also, seen online is a page from a document indicating which services that Diamond will operate from their new Eccles depot from September 2023, while explaining some details about services operating from Go North West's depots in Bolton and Wigan.



Looking at what's been reported, these could be the routes/operators in the Wigan and Bolton areas from end of September 2023. May be a question mark of what happens to some services currently operated from depots in Bolton by Arriva and Vision Bus outside of the Bolton and Wigan areas.

Go North West

• 1/2 Wigan-Highfield Grange
• 3/4 Wigan-Norley Hall
• 5/6 Wigan-Beech Hill
• 7 Wigan-Bolton via Westhoughton
• 8 Bolton-Manchester via Farnworth, Kearsley
• 8 Wigan-Leigh via HIndley
• 9 Wigan-Leigh via Platt Bridge
• 10/10A Wigan-Leigh via Ashton-in-Makerfield
• 20 Bolton-Trafford Centre via Little Hulton
• 21/22 Agecroft/Bolton-Trafford Centre via Swinton
• 34 Leigh-Manchester via Worsley
• 36 Bolton-Manchester via Little Hulton, Walkden
• 37 Bolton-Manchester via Farnworth, Walkden
• 163 Bury-Manchester via Heywood
• 362 Wigan-Chorley
• 471 Bolton-Rochdale via Bury
• 472/474 Bury-Ramsbottom
• 524 Bolton-Bury via Radcliffe
• 575 Bolton-Wigan via Horwich
• 582 Bolton-Leigh via Atherton
• 635 Wigan-Shevington
• V1 Leigh-Manchester Royal Infirmary via Guided Busway
• V2 Atherton-Manchester Royal Infirmary via Guided Busway
• X22 Bolton-Trafford Centre Express
  

Diamond NW

• 29 Boothstown-Salford Quays via Walkden
• 65 Eccles-Westwood Park
• 66 Eccles-Prestwich via Swinton
• 70 Eccles-Salford Shopping Centre
• 74/75 Salford Shopping Centre-Agecroft
• 79 Salford Shopping Centre-Stretford
• 126 Leigh-Trafford Centre via Astley
• 129 Farnworth-Higher Folds via Walkden
• 132 Wigan-Trafford Centre via Atherton
• 507 Bolton-Harwood
• 511 Bolton-Bury via Withins
• 512/513 Bury-Farnworth via Radcliffe
• 516 Leigh-Horwich via Westhoughton
• 521 Little Lever-Blackrod via Westhoughton
• 525/527 Bolton-Hall i'th' Wood circulars
• 526 Bolton-Smithills
• 533 Bolton-Egerton via Bromley Cross
• 535 Bolton-Belmont via Astley Bridge
• 537 Bolton-Andrew Lane via Astley Bridge
• 541 Bolton-Toppings via Bromley Cross
• 544 Bolton-Little Lever
• 557 Ringley Fold-Royal Bolton Hospital via Farnworth
• 559 Bolton-Ashton-in-Makerfield via Westhoughton
• 573/574 Bolton-Ladybridge circulars
• 583 Leigh-Tyldesley via Atherton
• 584 Leigh-Crankwood
• 588/590 Leigh-Lowton
• 594 Leigh-Tyldesley via Astley
• 596 Leigh-Laneside
• 597 Leigh Infirmary-Leigh Sports Village via Leigh town centre
• 634 Wigan-Castle Hill via Hindley
  

Arriva

• 34 Leigh-St Helens via Newton-le-Willows
• 320 Wigan-St Helens via Ashton-in-Makerfield
• 352 Wigan-St Helens via Orrell
• 360 Wigan-Warrington via Newton-le-Willows
• 375/385 Wigan-Southport via Skelmersdale and Ormskirk
• 395 Wigan-Skelmersdale
  

Merseytravel

• 156 Garswood-Lea Green via St Helens (Hattons - Monday-Saturday daytime)
• 156 Ashton-in-Makerfield-St Helens (HTL Buses - evenings/Sundays)
• 157 Ashton-in-Makerfield-Rainford Station (Cumfybus)
• 602 Ashton-in-Makerfield-Newton Hospital (HTL Buses)
  

Stagecoach

• 38 Logistics North-Manchester (presumably taken over in 2025)
• 113 Wigan-Preston via Leyland
• 125 Bolton-Preston via Chorley
• 127 Middlebrook-Chorley via Adlington
  

Transdev

• 1 Bolton-Blackburn via Darwen
  

Travel Assist

• TA1 Darwen-Harwood
• TA2 Darwen-Bury
  

Warrington's Own Buses

• 19 Leigh-Warrington via Culcheth and Croft
• 22 Warrington-Ashton-in-Makerfield via Newton-le-Willows
• 28/28A/28E Leigh-Warrington via Culcheth and Birchwood
  

Unknown

• 1 Bolton-Egerton (evening journeys - possibly still Vision Bus)
• 10 Brookhouse-Manchester via Eccles (possibly could stay at Arriva's Bolton depot or move to Wythenshawe depot)
• 22A Wigan-Warrington via Newton-le-Willows (evening/Sunday journeys - possibly still Warrington's Own Buses)
• 94 Bury-Cheetham Hill (possibly still Vision Bus)
• 480 Bolton-Bury via Harwood
• 501 Johnson Fold-Farnworth via Bolton (possibly Go North West)
• 520 Bolton-Westhoughton (possibly Go North West)
• 534 Bolton-Oldhams Estate
• 561/562 Bolton-Withins (possibly Go North West)
• 571/572 Bolton-Great Lever (possibly Go North West)
• 613 Wigan-New Springs
• 630 Wigan-Platt Bridge
• 639 Wigan-Worsley Hall
• 640/641 Wigan-Standish circulars