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When the full route to Manchester commenced, it was initially numbered 35, [1] with the Manchester terminus at Exchange. It was numbered 92 on 10 January 1949, when tramway service was withdrawn and the Manchester terminus moved to Piccadilly Gardens. [2] It was owned and operated jointly by Manchester and Stockport Corporations. [3]
The majority of services were operated by Stagecoach Manchester, with High Peak Buses, Little Gem, Selwyns Travel and Stotts Tours also using the station. [5]There were frequent buses running to Manchester, Altrincham, Ashton-under-Lyne, Hyde, Levenshulme, Longsight, Manchester Airport and Wythenshawe, plus several parts of the Stockport area including Bramhall, Bredbury, Brinnington, Cheadle ...
The development partners for the project comprised Stockport Council, TfGM, the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Homes England and developer CityHeart. [6] The overall scheme was designed by BDP , [ 1 ] the interchange by The Harris Partnership, [ 7 ] and the mixed use residential and commercial building by Manchester architects Leach ...
Stagecoach Manchester [1] is a major bus operator in Greater Manchester, operating franchised Bee Network bus services on contract to Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM). It is the largest UK bus subsidiary of Stagecoach Group outside of Greater London , as well as the largest within the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester by ...
Finglands Coachways was founded in 1907, initially as a coach operator. Bus services competing with GM Buses and other operators would be set up following deregulation in 1986. In 1992, Finglands were purchased by East Yorkshire Motor Services, the company's first purchase outside of their native operating area. [2] [3]
Greater Manchester Transport Centreline bus on display at the Museum of Transport, Greater Manchester. Transport across the Greater Manchester conurbation historically suffered from poor north–south connections due to the fact that Manchester's main railway stations, Piccadilly and Victoria, [2] [3] were built in the 1840s on peripheral locations outside Manchester city centre.
GM Buses North was then purchased in March by FirstBus for £47 million, [28] [29] later being rebranded as Greater Manchester FirstBus, with buses repainted into a deep orange livery featuring a blue stripe. [30] By 1997, the company would be rebranded again as First Manchester, with the corporate FirstGroup livery soon being adopted.
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