Commercial bus service changes

From Sunday 30 October, the following service changes will come into place.

Services withdrawn

• 108 - Timperley - Brooklands - Northern Moor - Manchester
  Alternative journeys available on services 41 and 101/103

• X58 - Flixton – Davyhulme – Lostock – Manchester
  Alternative journeys available on service 256

• X84 - Carrcote – Uppermill – Lees – Manchester
  Alternative journeys available on service 350 and 84

Operator changes

• 6 - Rochdale - Kirkholt circular
  Service will be operated by Go North West instead of First (evening journeys run by Rosso are unchanged)

• 11A - Altrincham - Gatley - Cheadle - Cheadle Heath - Stockport
  Most journeys will be operated by Diamond and will be renumbered 370 and 371 (with journeys numbered 371 running via Edgeley to replace 323). Evening and Sunday journeys run by Stagecoach are also renumbered 370 (but times unchanged)

• 81 - Oldham - Werneth - White Gate - Moston - Piccadilly Gardens
  All journeys will be operated by First.

• 150 - Gorton - Stretford - Trafford Park - The Trafford Centre
  Most journeys will be operated by Diamond (evening and Sunday journeys run by Stagecoach are unchanged).

• 183 - Limeside - Coppice - Oldham - Royal Oldham Hospital
  Service will be operated by Stotts instead of Stagecoach and times are revised.

• 345 - Ashton-under-Lyne - Denton - Dukinfield circular
  Daytime journeys will be operated by Stotts. Evening and Sunday journeys will continue to be operated by Stagecoach.

• 374 - Stockport - Adswood - Davenport - Hazel Grove circular
  Daytime journeys will be operated by Nexus. Evening and Sunday journeys will continue to be operated by Stagecoach.

• 458 - Rochdale - Low Hill - Wardle - Littleborough - Shore - Stansfield
  Service has been extended to serve Shore and Stansfield.

• 583 - Leigh - Abbey Lane - Atherton - Hag Fold - Tyldesley
  Sunday journeys will be operated by Vision. There will be an improved span of operation and the Sunday route is now the same as Monday-Saturday to replace Sunday 595.

• 590 - Leigh - Lowton Common - Lowton - Pennington circular
  Service will be operated by Hattons.

• 594 - Leigh - Blackmoor - Astley - Tyldesley - Bedford circular
  Service will be operated by Warrington's Own Buses with a new Sunday service operated by Vision.

• 630 - Wigan - Scholes - Ince - Spring View - Platt Bridge - Abram
  Service will be operated by Diamond.

• 635 - Wigan - Dangerous Corner - Appley Bridge - Gidlow circular
  All services will be operated by Diamond.

• X50 - Manchester – Trafford Park – The Trafford Centre
  Service will be operated by Diamond.

Services with reduced frequency and/or route changes

• 3/4 - Wigan - Kitt Green circular
  Saturday services will operate every 15 minutes.

• 7 - Ashton-under-Lyne - Droylsden - Reddish - Stockport
  All journeys will run via Dane Bank, Longford Road West in Reddish and Marbury Road in Heaton Chapel.

• 10 - Manchester - Eccles - Brookhouse Estate
  Sunday services will operate every 20 minutes.

• 23 - Stockport - Stretford - Urmston - The Trafford Centre
  There will be a reduction in the number of journeys before 9am between Monday and Saturday.

• 59 - Oldham - Middleton - Manchester
  Monday to Friday daytime frequency will reduce to every 12 minutes.

• 191 - Hazel Grove - Stockport - Levenshulme - Longsight - Manchester
  There will be a revision of the Monday to Friday peak hour timetable.

• 197 - Stockport - Heaton Mersey - Heaton Moor - Manchester
  There will be a reduction in the number of journeys before 7am between Monday and Friday.

• 250 - The Trafford Centre - Trafford Park – Manchester
  Monday to Friday daytime frequency will reduce to every 12 minutes.

• 253 - Partington - Carrington - Stretford – Manchester
  One peak time Monday to Friday 253 service will be withdrawn.

• 256 - Flixton - Lostock - Stretford - Hulme - Manchester
  Monday to Saturday daytime frequency will reduce to every 15 minutes.

• 323 - Stockport - Edgeley - Heaton Mersey circular
  The 323 will only run on Saturday, replaced to Heaton Mersey Monday to Friday by an extended 375. Monday-Saturday, the section of route through Edgeley is replaced by Diamond 371.

• 324 - Stockport - Denton - Haughton Green - Brinnington circular
  The evening and Sunday 324 services is replaced by journeys on the 327 with these being operated by Nexus instead of Stagecoach.

• 375 - Mellor - Marple - Hazel Grove - Offerton - Stockport
  Monday to Friday services will be extended to Heaton Mersey to replace the 323.

• 464 - Accrington - Haslingden - Bacup - Whitworth – Rochdale
  New early morning journeys have been introduced on weekdays and Saturdays.

• 467/468 - Bury - Jericho - Bamford - Caldershaw - Spotland - Rochdale
  Daytime frequency to increase to every 30 minutes for each service - to give a combined frequency of every 15 minutes. New early morning journeys have been introduced on weekdays and Saturdays to connect with the R6 to Kingsway.

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