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Metropolitan Borough of Tameside

 

 

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

 

 

Area map

 

Map of Tameside area

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

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Public Transport from 1824

 

Road Transport

 

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

 

 

Operator Horse Buses Horse Trams Electric Tramways Trolley Buses Motor Buses SELNEC GMT
Ashton 1880-1903 1880-1903 1899-1938 1925-1966 1923-1969 1969-1974 1974-1986
SHMD 1880-1903 1880-1903 1899-1945 1938-1966 1925-1969 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:

 

Ashton-under-Lyne

Ashton-under-Lyne Corporation Passenger Transport / Stockport Corporation Transport / Manchester Corporation Transport / SHMD Board / North Western

 

Audenshaw

Ashton-under-Lyne Corporation Passenger Transport / Manchester Corporation Transport / SHMD Board

 

Denton

Ashton-under-Lyne Corporation Passenger Transport / Manchester Corporation Transport / SHMD Board / Stockport Corporation Transport

 

Droylsden

Ashton-under-Lyne Corporation Passenger Transport / Manchester Corporation Transport / SHMD Board

 

Dukinfield

SHMD Board / Ashton-under-Lyne Corporation Passenger Transport / Manchester Corporation Transport

 

Hyde

SHMD Board / Manchester Corporation Transport / Stockport Corporation Transport / Ashton-under-Lyne Corporation Passenger Transport

 

Longendale

North Western

 

Mossley

SHMD Board / Ashton-under-Lyne Corporation Passenger Transport / Manchester Corporation Transport

 

Stalybridge

SHMD Board / Ashton-under-Lyne Corporation Passenger Transport / Manchester Corporation Transport

 

 

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Local Authority

 

Tameside 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 Tameside by operator: 

 

Ashton-under-Lyne Corporation Passenger Transport

SHMD Board

Stockport Corporation Transport

Manchester Corporation Transport

North Western

 

 

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