To allow for resurfacing works on Sunday 16th October until Wednesday 19th October between 07:30hrs and 16:00hrs each day Cadder Road will close.
Service 7/A will advance 4mins ahead of time from Summerston and will divert Bilsland Drive, Maryhill, Sandbank Street calling at Glenburn Street and Cotter Street.
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We are always interested to hear from people who are keen to be apart of the team at the beginning of a new era in bus services in Rochdale, Bury and the surrounding area.
We offer excellent pay and benefits and access to a choice of other rewards. For further details visit First Bus Careers
First Manchester operate services in Rochdale and Bury as part of the phase two rollout of franchised bus services by Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM).
We’ll also be delivering services to six schools in the region. These are: St Monica’s High School in Prestwich, Co-op Academy and Co-op Academy North in Blackley, St Cuthbert’s School in Rochdale, Waterhead Academy in Oldham and St Matthew RC High School in Moston. There will be no changes to the service numbers of buses used on the routes.
Our absolute priority will be to deliver a reliable service in partnership with TfGM with a best-in-class, customer-first approach to support journeys.
Our depot operations
Buses in the distinctive Bee Network yellow livery will operate from our Rochdale depot on Corporation Road, where we are investing £750,000 with a focus on enhanced engineering facilities, including a new double height workshop bay for vehicle repair and maintenance. The yard area will also be improved to provide better space for operations.
The depot will manage more than 30 routes in the Rochdale and Bury area together with six school services using a fleet of over 60 buses and capacity to expand this to 90 vehicles.
Service 590 Halifax – Todmorden – Rochdale
Please note this service into Greater Manchester will not be part of the Bee Network as it is operated from the First Bus depot in Halifax and will continue as normal. The timetable can be viewed here
Diwali celebrations take place on Sunday 29 October and Sunday 12 November. Belgrave Road will be closed between 10am & 9pm, services 4 & 25/26 will need to divert as follows;
Service 4 Rushey Mead will divert via Dysart Way & Catherine Street.
Please note that bus stops along Belgrave Road / Melton Road & Marfitt Street/Gipsy Lane will not be served.
Strasbourg Drive is due to close from 17 October until 21 October, during the closure our services will be diverted.
Details below;
Services 25/26 & 54 - buses will divert via Heacham Drive, Calver Hey Road, Anstey Lane & Krefeld Way.
Service 74 - buses will continue along Anstey Lane and turn right Krefeld Way - There will be no service to Calver hey Road and Heacham Drive.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Evington Valley Road is due to close from 17 October until 21 October, during the closure service 16 will be diverting via Gwendolen Road and East Park Road.
Please note that bus stops along Chesterfield Road and Evington Valley Road will not be served.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Scraptoft Lane is due to close from 17 October until 24 October, during the closure Services 38/38A will be diverting as follows;
Service 38 - normal route to Netherhall Road, left New Romney Crescent, right Hamilton Lane, left Main Street, right Church Hill, Station Lane, Thurncourt Road then resumes normal route.
Service 38A - normal route to Thurcourt Road, left Station Lane, left Scraptoft Lane, right Scraptoft Rise, Hamilton Lane, left New Romney Crescent then resumes normal route.
From Monday 17th October 2022 to Friday 21st October 2022 there will be a closure along Ruishton Lane, Ruishton. This will affect service 29.
Buses will divert as follows:
Towards Glastonbury
Buses will divert down the A358 and then turn left up Bushy Cross Lane and then right onto Cheats Road where they will resume their normal line of route.
Marfitt Street is due to close on Sunday until 12 noon. During the closure service 4 will need to divert via Catherine Street & Dysart Way.
Please note that bus stops along Belgrave Road and Melton Road will not be served.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
From Monday 17th October > Friday 21st October 2022:
West Bay Road part closure - northbound ONLY from Crown Inn roundabout to Flood Lane.
Services affected:
C1 outbound (AM journey ONLY) &