Manchester - Changes to services 217, 218 and 230 to 235

Changes to services 217, 218 and 230 to 235

2 October 2008

From Sunday 26 October 2008 we are revising the network of services currently operating as 217, 218 and 230 to 235. There will also be changes to services 216, 220 and 236/237.

These revisions are as a result of having undertaken survey work in March this year and after considering all of the feedback received from our customers.

The significant changes are being made to create an easier to understand and more reliable network. Stagecoach will also be introducing more easy access low-floor buses into the network.

Click here to see a (pdf) map which illustrates where the revised 217, 218 and 231 services will operate. Please note that the services all start and finish at Piccadilly and not Shudehill.

A summary of the changes is listed below. Click the service number to view a (pdf) timetable.

Service No.

Description

Monday to Saturday evening frequency improved to run every 15 minutes.

Basic hourly Monday to Saturday service running Piccadilly – Clayton –

Droylsden – Audenshaw – Ashton – Tameside General Hospital –

Mossley – Micklehurst (not Staley Rd) – Carrbrook (not South View) –

Millbrook – Brushes Estate – Stalybridge – Dukinfield – Audenshaw –

Droylsden – Clayton – Piccadilly.

Hourly Sunday service, revised timetable between Piccadilly and

Tameside General Hospital only.

All journeys on 217 will be operated by easy access low-floor buses.

Hourly Monday to Saturday service running Piccadilly – Clayton –

Droylsden – Audenshaw – Dukinfield – Stalybridge – Brushes Estate –

Millbrook – Carrbrook (not South View) – Micklehurst (not Staley Road) –

Mossley – Tameside General Hospital – Ashton – Audenshaw –

Droylsden – Clayton – Piccadilly.

New hourly Sunday service introduced, running between Piccadilly and

Stalybridge.

All journeys on 218 will be operated by easy access low-floor buses.

Sunday service withdrawn, replaced by service 218.

Piccadilly – Ashton New Road – Sunnyside Road – Littlemoss.

Every 15 minutes Monday to Saturday daytime, 7 to 8 mins in the

morning peak towards Piccadilly and afternoon peak to Littlemoss.

Extends to Hartshead (via St Alban’s Ave), Tameside General Hospital

and Ashton Bus Station, every half hour Monday to Saturday daytime.

Half hourly Sunday service Piccadilly – Ashton New Road – Sunnyside

Road – Littlemoss – Broadoak Hotel, extending hourly via Hartshead and

Tameside General Hospital to Ashton Bus Station.

All journeys on 231 will be operated by easy access low-floor buses.

Evening journeys will only run between Ashton and Glossop. Some

journeys are retimed with a later last bus from Glossop to Ashton at

2325 hours (service 237). The last buses from Ashton to Glossop will now

be 2251 (service 236) and 2331 (service 237).

Some additional evening journeys will extend to/from Glossop (Royal

Oak).

Extra buses will run on service 216 between Manchester and Ashton via

Ashton New Road.

237 weekend night bus journeys between Piccadilly and Ashton will all be

renumbered 216. The last trip through to Glossop will still be a 237.

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