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Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale

 

 

Local authority Public transport from 1824 Bus services until 1969 Vehicles in the collection

 

 

Area map

 

Map of Rochdale area

Reproduced from Ordnance Survey map data by permission of Ordnance Survey, © Crown copyright.

Image produced from the Ordnance Survey Get-a-map service. Image reproduced with kind permission of Ordnance Survey and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland.

 

 

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Public Transport from 1824

 

Road Transport

 

Public road transport for the main municipal operator in what is now the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale is summarised below:

 

 

Operator Steam Trams Electric Tramways Motor Buses SELNEC GMT
Rochdale 1886-1905 1902-1932 1926-1969 1969-1974 1974-1986

GMT = Greater Manchester Transport

 

Public transport from 1824 in Greater Manchester

 

 

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Bus services until 1969

 

Bus service operation until the formation of SELNEC in 1969 is shown by town below:

 

Heywood

Bury Corporation Transport / Rochdale Corporation Transport / Manchester Corporation Transport

 

Littleborough

Rochdale Corporation Transport

 

Middleton

Rochdale Corporation Transport / Manchester Corporation Transport / Oldham Corporation Passenger Transport

 

Milnrow

Rochdale Corporation Transport

 

Rochdale

Rochdale Corporation Transport / Bury Corporation Transport / Ashton-under-Lyne Corporation Passenger Transport / Oldham Corporation Passenger Transport / Manchester Corporation Transport

 

Wardle

Rochdale Corporation Transport

 

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Local Authority

 

Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council

 

 

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Vehicles in the Collection

 

Find all vehicles in our Collection which formerly operated in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale by operator: 

 

Rochdale Corporation Transport

Bury Corporation Transport

Ashton-under-Lyne Corporation Passenger Transport

Oldham Corporation Passenger Transport

Manchester Corporation Transport

 

 

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