Greater Manchester Service Changes

[SF07]

RE: Greater Manchester Service Changes

(26/03/2021 17:18)SF07 Wrote:  Only goes to service 262 at the moment. Changes so far that haven't been previously mentioned/confirmed are:

• 15 (Diamond/Stagecoach): All journeys run by Stagecoach
• 41 (Go North West/Stagecoach): All journeys run by Go North West
• 51 (Stagecoach): Service re-instated
• 88 (Little Gem): Saturday evening and Sunday daytime service introduced between Altrincham and Wilmslow (not sure if weekday evening service will be introduced)
• 94 (Stotts) and 492 (Tyrers): Service 94, which is being extended to Bury, replacing service 492, will now be run by Tyrers.
• 171/172 (Stagecoach): Taken over by Diamond
• 184 (First): Evening and Sunday service confirmed to run by First between Grotton and Oldham, partly replacing service 80.
• 248 (Little Gem): Withdrawn
  

Stagecoach also changing a lot of their Saturday timetables, increasing back towards normal levels.

The rest of the changes now showing. The significant changes are in the Bolton area:

• 281 (Diamond/Little Gem): All journeys operated by Little Gem
• 282 (Diamond/Little Gem): All journeys operated by Little Gem
• 283/284 (Diamond/Little Gem): All journeys operated by Little Gem
• 285/286 (Diamond/Little Gem): All journeys operated by Little Gem
• 287 (Diamond/Little Gem): All journeys operated by Little Gem
• 288 (D&G/Little Gem): All journeys operated by Little Gem with evening and Sunday journeys between Altrincham and Manchester Airport re-instated.
• 335 (Little Gem/Stagecoach/Stotts): All journeys operated by Little Gem
• 339 (Little Gem/Stotts): Evening and Sunday journeys operated by Little Gem
• 340/343 (Stotts): The 0740 journey on service 340 is replaced by a journey on service 343.
• 345 (Little Gem/Stagecoach): Evening and Sunday journeys taken over by Little Gem.
• 375 Stockport (Little Gem/Stagecoach): All journeys taken over by Little Gem.
• 382 (Little Gem/Selwyns): All journeys taken over by Selwyns.
• 396 (Little Gem/Stagecoach): Evening and Sunday journeys taken over by Little Gem.
• 494 (Arriva/Selwyns/Vision Bus): Early weekday morning journeys re-timed with additional journeys introduced. Sunday journeys taken over by Vision Bus.
• 500 (Vision Bus): Withdrawn.
• 501 (Arriva/Diamond/Vision Bus): Evening journeys taken over by Diamond and Vision Bus.
• 507 (Arriva/Diamond): Evening journeys taken over by Diamond.
• 510 (Arriva/Rosso), 511 (Diamond/Vision Bus) and 536 (Vision Bus): Times changed on service 511 with evening and Sunday journeys on services 510 and 536 replaced by new journeys on service 511, which are operated by Vision Bus.
• 520 (Diamond/Vision Bus): Early Monday-Saturday morning journeys taken over by Diamond
• 521 (Little Gem/Vision Bus): All journeys taken over by Vision Bus with service re-routed to serve Logistics North and additional early morning, Monday-Saturday evening and Sunday daytime journeys introduced between Farnworth and Westhoughton.
• 533 (Diamond/Vision Bus): All journeys taken over by Diamond
• 541 (Vision Bus): New evening and Sunday daytime service introduced, operated by Vision Bus
• 557 (Tyrers/Vision Bus): All journeys taken over by Vision Bus.
• 561/562 (Arriva/Diamond): Evening journeys taken over by Diamond.
• 571/572 (Diamond/Vision Bus): Monday-Saturday evening journeys to be operated by Diamond with additional late evening journeys introduced by Vision Bus.
• 575 (Diamond): Some Sunday journeys are extended from Horwich to Lever Park/Rivington.
• X5 (Diamond/Little Gem): Service taken over by Little Gem
• X57 (Hulleys): Early evening and Sunday journeys re-instated.