Diamond Bus North West

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RE: Diamond Bus North West
I can see some confusion coming up with bus fares on Diamond Bus services from next Sunday, after the takeover of First's Bolton depot.

The existing range of First tickets will be adopted by Diamond Bus, including the Night ticket, SuperSaver weekly ticket on the 36/37 route and the Rochdale Road tickets on services 162/163. The SuoerSaver ticket will be extended to include existing Diamond services 26, 29, 35 and 79 on sections of route between Walkden, Swinton, Salford Shopping Centre and Manchester.

Services currently operated by Diamond that are subsidised by TfGM will continue to be charged by the current Diamond ticket range (£4.60 day, £14.50 weekly). First/GNW tickets will not be available on those services. This should mainly apply to services in Trafford. Presumably, the £5 day ticket would be valid on existing Diamond services.

Diamond are also introducing a Wigan weekly ticket, available at the same price as the current weekly ticket, which will be valid on services 9, 583, 607, 613, 630, 635, 638 and 640/641 plus services 132 between Wigan and Tyldesley and services 576/715 between Wigan and Aspull.

Looking at the TfGM timetables, the services that are subsidised by TfGM, and therefore will continue to offer the existing tickets are:

• 9 (Evenings)
• 15 (Early mornings)
• 26 (Evenings)
• 27
• 29
• 35 (Evenings)
• 65
• 66
• 73
• 79
• 84
• 95 (Sunday daytime)
• 132 (Evening/Sundays)
• 245 (0640 Saturdays Stretford-Altrincham)
• 260
• 261
• 262
• 272
• 281
• 282
• 283/284
• 285/286
• 287
• 516 (Evenings)
• 576 (Evenings)
• 583 (Monday-Saturday evenings)
• 584 (Evenings)
• 593 (Evenings/Sundays)
• 607
• 613 (0723 weekdays from New Springs)
• 635 (Evenings)
• 638
• 640/641
• 683
• 694
• 695
• 715 (Evenings/Sundays)
  

https://www.diamondbuses.com/news/new-dbnw-tickets/
https://www.diamondbuses.com/tickets/mob...ts/bolton/
https://www.diamondbuses.com/tickets/mob...orth-west/