Greater Manchester Service Changes

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RE: Greater Manchester Service Changes
Proposed and planned changes listed from the forthcoming Bus Committee meeting next week. Changes will take place on 16th April 2023 (unless stated).

The notable changes are that Go North West will take some of the journeys withdrawn by Diamond in Bolton and Bury. Also changes to services in Stockport/Cheadle and from Transdev in Rochdale/Bury:

• 1 (Howards Travel and Omega Busways): New commercial service between Altrincham and Manchester via Airport and Princess Parkway, running one daily journey each way with some extra weekday journeys from 03/04/023
• 150 (Diamond): Weekday morning journeys re-timed
• 151 (Stotts): The first weekday journey to NMGH will start from Moston, Ben Brierley instead of Failsworth Tesco.
• 163/520/561/562/575 (Diamond/Go North West): Diamond's commercial journeys taken over on a tendered basis by Go North West. Existing tendered journeys remain unchanged.
• 309/310 (Nexus Move): New services introduced, partly replacing services 328 and 371, running circular routes between Stockport, Adswood and Cheadle. Service will run hourly Monday-Saturday daytime and every 2 hours evenings and Sundays.
• 312 (Stagecoach): New service introduced between Stockport and Cheadle Hulme via Bridge Hall and Cheadle, running every 30 minutes Monday-Saturday daytime and hourly evenings and Sundays. Service partly replaces service 328. Not to be confused by D&G Bus service 312 between Wilmslow and Handforth Dean.
• 323 (Stagecoach): Withdrawn and partly replaced by service 371.
• 370/371 (Diamond/Stagecoach): Weekday journeys re-timed. Service 371 is re-routed between Cheadle and Stockport to run via Parrs Wood and Heaton Mersey, partly replacing services 323 and 375. Avondale Road in Edgeley will be served by services 309/310.
• 375 (Little Gem): Weekday journeys will no longer extend from Stockport to Heaton Mersey, which is partly replaced by service 371. Stagecoach journeys on Saturdays remain unchanged.
• 455/R5 (Rosso): Service R5 is re-numbered to 455 and extended from Littleborough to Shore and Stansfield, partly replacing service 458. Stubley is served by services 456/458.
• 456/458 (Rosso): Existing service 458 is revised to run between Rochdale and Littleborough, running a circular route via Stubley, Littleborough and Hollingworth Lake with clockwise journeys numbered 456 and anti-clockwise journeys numbered 458.
• 527 (Vision/Diamond): Vision Bus' commercial journeys taken over on a tendered basis by Diamond. Service 525 and existing tendered journeys remains unchanged.
• B1 (Rosso): Re-timed to run 10 minutes later
• B2 (Rosso): Service re-routed around Limefield and Chesham
• B3 (Rosso): New service introduced between Bury and Norden, partly replacing services B4 and R2. Service will run mostly along existing B4 between Bury and Heywood (with a slight re-routing in Fern Grove) before running mostly along the R2 route between Heywood and Norden (with a slight re-routing in Elmsfield). Service to run hourly Mon-Sat daytime and every 2 hours between Bury and Heywood during evenings and Sundays.
• B4 (Rosso): Service re-routed to run along R2 route between Bury and Heywood (via Heap Bridge). Slight re-routing in Heywood.
• Free Bus 1, 2, 3 (Go North West): Changes planned still be finalised.
• RHS1 (Diamond): New daily summer service between Manchester Piccadilly station and RHS Bridgewater via Salford Crescent and Walkden railway station, running two journeys each way from 01/04/023
• R1 (Rosso): Re-timed
• R2 (Rosso): Service re-routed to run between Rochdale and Shawfield. Norden-Heywood-Bury served by services B3 and B4.
• R3 (Rosso): Service re-routed between Rochdale and Healey Corner, serving Rochdale Infirmary with service re-timed.
• R4 and R6 (Rosso): Services R4 and R6 are merged into a circular route with service R4 running from Rochdale to Peppermint Bridge mostly via existing R4 route but re-routed via Kiln Lane and Pennine Drive. Buses returning to Rochdale will run via Ladybridge and Kingsway Business Park. Service R6 will run in the opposite direction. Services also re-routed via Deeplish and Rochdale railway station.
• R5 (Rosso): Re-numbered 455 (see above).
• R7 (Rosso): Peak-time journeys re-timed and service re-routed in Boarshaw to run in a loop in both directions.
• R8 (Rosso): Re-timed
• R9/R10 (Rosso): Re-timed to provide an even 30 minute frequency between Rochdale and Milnrow with services R4/R6
• X50 (Diamond): Early morning journeys re-timed and buses will serve all stops along the route
• Middleton Local Link (Nexus Move): Extended to serve Heywood Old Road and Boardman Lane
  

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