Greater Manchester Service Changes

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RE: Greater Manchester Service Changes
More of the April changes now showing on the TfGM website, along with those Go North West changes. Suspect there may be more to come on TfGM, as no mention yet on services such as the 1 (Bolton-Egerton), 84A (84/254), 94, 151, 411, 525/526/527, 537, 571/572, 573/574, 583, 584, 588 or 595.

One notable change is some reductions to frequencies on First routes, including the V1/V2, which will see weekday off-peak and Sunday journeys on service V2 curtailed to run between Atherton and Tyldesley only. Peak-time journeys on the V2 continue to MRI and Saturday daytime journeys terminate at Princess Street in Manchester.

Several of these changes will previously have been mentioned in the GMCA meeting documents (see Greater Manchester tenders thread), but now have been confirmed.

• 18 Airport-Eccles (Diamond/Arriva): Re-routed via Carrington, Flixton and Ashton-upon-Mersey instead of Stretford. All journeys run by Arriva.
• 44 (Selwyns/Little Gem): Service re-routed between Fallowfield and West Didsbury to run via Parrs Wood Road and East Didsbury instead of Withington and extended from Wythenshawe Hospital to Altrincham via Timperley, partly replacing service 288. All journeys run by Little Gem. Some schoolday journeys run to/from Altrincham Girls Grammar School
• 57 (First): Saturday daytime journeys reduced to hourly
• 81 (First): Saturday daytime journeys reduced to hourly. No changes to Stagecoach journeys.
• 82 (First): Monday-Saturday daytime journeys reduced to every 20 minutes.
• 88 (Little Gem): Little Gem journeys withdrawn. D&G Bus journeys remain unchanged.
• 125 Middleton (Stotts): Re-routed to run between Heywood and Middleton via Hopwood, Birch, Langley and Hollin Lane. Some schoolday journeys extend to/from Rhodes via Manchester Old Road.
• 156 (Stagecoach): Additional evening and Sunday journeys between NMGH and Shudehill to form a roughly 20-40 minute frequency (xx03 and xx19 from NMGH, xx25, xx43 from Shudehill).
• 171/172 (Diamond): All journeys run by Stagecoach
• 184 (First): Evening journeys between Oldham and Grotton/Marsden withdrawn. Daytime journeys remain between Oldham and Huddersfield, however Sunday daytime short journeys between Oldham and Grotton are withdrawn, meaning a bus every 2 hours between Oldham, Greenacres, Lees and Grotton on Sundays.
• 217 (Diamond): Monday-Saturday daytime journeys run by Little Gem. Evening and Sunday journeys run by Stagecoach.
• 245 (Arriva/Diamond): Times changed with evening journeys running between Trafford Centre and Stretford only. All journeys run by Arriva.
• 247 (Arriva/Diamond): Times changed with evening journeys run by Arriva.
• 260 (Little Gem): Re-routed to run between Sale and Epping Drive. Services 18 and 280 replaces service 260 between Sale, Carrington and Partington.
• 281-287 (Little Gem/Arriva): All services run by Arriva with changes to early morning/early evening journeys.
• 288 (Little Gem/Arriva): Running between Altrincham and Airport only with evening and Sunday journeys being run by Arriva.
• 335 (Little Gem/Stotts/Stagecoach): Monday-Saturday daytime journeys run by Stotts. Evening and Sunday journeys run by Stagecoach.
• 336/337 (Stagecoach/Little Gem): Monday-Saturday daytime journeys run by Little Gem. Evening and Sunday journeys remain with Stagecoach.
• 339 (Stotts/Little Gem/Stagecoach): Evening and Sunday journeys run by Stagecoach. Monday-Saturday daytime journeys remain with Stotts.
• 342/344 (Stagecoach/Stotts): Monday-Saturday daytime journeys run by Stotts. Sunday journeys (342 only) remain with Stagecoach.
• 348 (First): Weekday daytime journeys reduced to every 20 minutes. Saturday daytime journeys reduced to every 30 minutes.
• 375 Stockport (Little Gem/Stagecoach): Evening and Sunday service introduced between Stockport and Hawk Green, which is run by Stagecoach. Monday-Saturday daytime journeys between Stockport and Mellor remain with Little Gem.
• 382 (Selywns): All journeys run by Stagecoach
• 389 (Stagecoach/Little Gem): Monday-Saturday daytime journeys run by Little Gem. Evening and Sunday journeys remain with Stagecoach.
• 391 (Little Gem): Re-routed in Tytherington
• 396 (Stotts/Little Gem/Stagecoach): Evening and Sunday journeys re-timed and run by Stagecoach. Stotts remains on Monday-Saturday daytime journeys.
• 402 (Stotts/Nexus Move/Rosso): Re-routed to run between Buckstones and Oldham via High Crompton, partly replacing service 408. Monday-Saturday daytime journeys (hourly) will be run by Rosso and evening/Sunday journeys (every 2 hours) run by Nexus Move. Service to follow existing 408 route between Buckstones and bottom of Dogford Road, then up Rochdale Road before resuming 402 route from Oozewood to Oldham via Royton, North Chadderton and Royal Oldham Hospital.
• 403 (Stotts/Rosso): All journeys run by Rosso with service re-routed between Heyside and Oldham via Higginshaw instead of Royal Oldham Hospital. Additional morning and late afternoon journeys introduced.
• 408 (First): Withdrawn and replaced by services 402 and R9/R10.
• 415 (Go North West/Stagecoach): Early Saturday morning introduced. Monday-Saturday evening journeys to be run by Go North West. Stagecoach continue to run Sunday journeys.
• 425 (First/Stagecoach): Some weekday afternoon journeys withdrawn. All evening journeys run by First.
• 435 (Rosso): Withdrawn and replaced by services 402 and R9/R10.
• 456/458 (Rosso): All journeys to operate as service 458 between Littleborough and Rochdale via Hollingworth Lake, running half-hourly Monday-Saturday daytime and hourly evening/Sundays. Some early morning and schoolday journeys will run between Stansfield/Shore and Rochdale via Littleborough.
• 457 (Rosso): Evening and Sunday service introduced between Stansfield and Rochdale, partly replacing service 458.
• 480 (Rosso): Monday-Saturday evening and Sunday daytime journeys introduced with some journeys re-routed to run to/from/via Ramsbottom, partly replacing service 273.
• 494 (Tyrers/Vision Bus): Withdrawn
• 501 (Vision Bus): Some early weekend morning introduced, while some late evening journeys withdrawn. No change to Diamond journeys.
• 511 (Vision Bus): Evening journeys re-timed. No changes to Diamond's daytime journeys
• 516 (Diamond): Monday-Saturday daytime journeys re-timed with journeys now funded by TfGM.
• 520 (Diamond/Vision Bus): All journeys run by Diamond with evening/Sunday journeys re-timed.
• 533/541 (Vision Bus): Evening/Sunday journeys on service 533 withdrawn and replaced by new journeys on service 541 between Toppings, Bromley Cross and Bolton.
• B2 (Rosso): Sunday daytime service introduced along with one Monday-Saturday evening journey.
• B4 (Rosso): Sunday daytime service introduced along with two Monday-Saturday evening journey between Bury and Heywood (not via the Captain Fold/Hopwood loop). All journeys re-routed via Fern Grove, partly replacing service 494.
• R3/R13 (Rosso): All journeys re-numbered to R3, but running along the R13 route. Evening service introduced between Healey Corner and Rochdale.
• R4 (Rosso): Extended to Peppermint Bridge via Newhey, partly replacing service R5 and increased to hourly service. Ladyhouse no longer served (partly replaced by new service R6).
• R5 (Rosso): Existing service R5 re-routed to run between Rochdale and Littleborough via Milnrow, Smithy Bridge and Stubley, partly replacing service 456, on an hourly basis.
• R6 (Rosso): New service between Rochdale and Milnrow via Kingsway Business Park and Ladyhouse
• R7 (Rosso): Re-routed via Kingsway Business Park and extended from Castleton to Middleton via Stakehill Industrial Estate and Boarshaw, partly replacing services 12/129. Evening and Sunday journeys introduced. All daytime journeys to run hourly, while evening journeys run every two hours.
• R8 (Rosso): Re-timed with earlier morning journeys introduced.
• R9 Rochdale-Foxholes (Rosso): Withdrawn
• R9/R10 Rochdale-Shaw (Rosso): New circular routes introduced between Rochdale and Shaw, partly replacing services 408 and 435. Services to run hourly Monday-Saturday daytime with an hourly evening/Sunday service between Rochdale and Shaw (Metrolink stop) via Milnrow.
• V1 (First): Times changed with service operating every 15 minutes Monday-Saturday daytime, every 20 minutes Sunday daytime and every 30 minutes evenings between Leigh and MRI via city centre.
• V2 (First): Peak-time journeys will run every 30 minutes between Atherton and MRI via city centre. Saturday daytime journeys run every hour between Atherton and Manchester city centre. Remaining journeys will operate between Atherton and Tyldesley Interchange only, running every 45 minutes weekday off-peak and every 40 minutes evenings and Sunday daytime. Connections available between services V1 and V2 at Tyldesley.