Diamond Bus North West

[gilesbus1]

RE: Diamond Bus North West

(16/07/2019 21:59)Neukit Wrote:  What’s the history to the 575 route, and the current competition between Arriva and Diamond?

First dropped it in early 2018 and Diamond North West registered over their journey's, GM Buses had ran it for quite some time before, but there journeys never ran beyond Horwich, the Arriva journey's to Wigan were originally Blue Bbus Journey's, if I am not mistaken partially replaced First Manchester journeys on service 617 which were withdrawn by First Manchester at least in part although they took over Blue Bus journey's as well on the route which at one stage past Blue Buses depot at Locomotion Industrial Estate, which is situated behind Horwich Fire Station. Whether Diamond may extend there 575 to Wigan in order to get members of their fleet there, to operate journeys there, remains to be seen. No doub't the original origin is in Bolton Tram routes and indeed Horwich had a small tram depot that is still standing as the ASL Motor Factor's garage branch in Horwich, on Chorley New Road. That building has a date stone and without seeing a picture of it I can't see, but that's where and when it would have begun,then becoming Bolton Corporation Buses, the Selnec, then GMT, then GM Buses and so on.