The North Manchester Report Friday 18th August 2017

Phillip Davies
Aug 18, 2017
2 min read

So today the team took over Bolton, Bury and Rochdale all three towns are very nice and have friendly folk Bury is known for its market well Bolton and Rochdale are known for there football teams, Phil took us to Rochdale and show us some of his past child hood spots where we found some nice locations including Daniel Fold, Bamford and Norden from We when back towards Rochdale where we found winners row today's goal was to hunt down all four Bolton B10Bs but only 60405 + 62241 were on the road we got both in no time

First 37417 Rochdale Bus Station - Bolton Bus Station First (B10B) 62241 Bolton Bus Station - Town Centre First (B10B) 60405 Bolton Town Centre - Bolton Bus Station First 69152 Bolton Bus Station - Bury Bus Station Rosso 114 (LK03NKA) - Bury B.S - Ings Lane / Wycherley Road Rosso 306 Rooley Moor Rd / Ings Lane - Rochdale Bus Station First 47476 Rochdale B.S - Oldham Road / Milnrow Road First 33686 Oldham Road / Milnrow Road - Rochdale Bus Stn First 47478 Rochdale Bus Station - Littleborough Railway Station First 47467 Church Street / Littleborough Sq - Rochdale B.S Rosso 122 (LF52USP) - Rochdale Bus Station - Bury Bus Station First 12007 Bury Bus Station - Manchester Rd / Tesco

12007 in Bury - Phillip Davies

Rosso 132 in Bury - Phillip Davies

Rosso 122 in Rochdale - Phillip Davies

47480 in Rochdale - Phillip Davies

60405 in Bolton - Phillip Davies

62241 in Bolton - Phillip Davies

On theme of B10s

60296 to 60396(NxxxPNA) were all new to GM North which is FIrst Manchester which served routes 8, 100, 67, 98, 22, 400, 471/2/3, 17/A, 507, 508, 520, 383, 384, 409, 407, 415, 162/3 and many more routes around Manchester

60401 to 60410 were also new to First Manchester

40337 to 40440 were also new to First Manchester with 40437 now in Preservation somewhere

Meanwhile on the South Manchester side of Town

B10Ms

801 to 996 were new to Stagecoach Manchester(GM South) series going from N to P

N801DNE is in Preservation

R896XVM + 899XVM are in Preservation with the B10M Preservation Group which can be found on Facebook, 899 holds Magic Livery well 896 holds striples Livery most of the class have been scrapped 924/928/933/936/938/940/969to 973 are just about getting on 933/936 are trainers in Oxfordshire well 938 is an trainer in Winchester 940/969 have been sold to Ensign with the others named above which end there working life's at Hyde Road