Bury Interchange is a

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in the town of

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. Opened in 1980, it is the northern terminus of the

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Bury Line The Bury Line is a tram line of the Manchester Metrolink running from Manchester city centre to Bury in Greater Manchester. Originally a railway line, it was, along with the Altrincham Line, converted into a tram line during 1991–92, as pa ...

, which prior to 1992 was a heavy-rail line. It also incorporates a bus station.

History

Bury Interchange was opened by

British Rail British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most of the overground rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the Big Four British rai ...

in March 1980, integrating a new

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with the northern terminus of the Bury-to-

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heavy railway line, a new short spur line was constructed to connect the new station. The railway had originally run into Bury Bolton Street which was further away from the town centre, and was closed by British Rail on the same day that Bury Interchange opened; Bury Bolton Street is now operated by the heritage

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. The railway was redeveloped in the early-1990s to become part of the

network in 1992, forming the northern terminus. The interchange is managed by

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and has recently been refurbished, improving facilities and security for passengers.

Metrolink services

Service pattern

Services mostly run every 12 minutes on 2 routes, forming a 6-minute service between Bury and Manchester at peak times.

Bus services

The majority of services are run by

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and

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with the remainder of services run by

Arriva North West Arriva North WestCompanies House extract company no 1990871

and

Stagecoach Manchester Stagecoach ManchesterCompanies House extract company no 2818654

. Now-defunct operators which have run services to or from the interchange in the past have included

Ribble Motor Services Ribble Motor Services was a large regional bus operator in the North West England based in Preston. History Ribble Motor Services commenced operating in 1919, and grew to be the largest operator in the region, with a territory stretching ...

Crosville Motor Services Crosville Motor Services was a bus operator based in the north-west of England and north and mid-Wales. History On 27 October 1906, Crosville Motor Company was formed in Chester by George Crosland Taylor and his French business associate Geo ...

Yelloway Motor Services Yelloway Motor Services was a bus and coach company based in Rochdale. History In 1902, Robert Holt commenced a parcels delivery service in the Rochdale area using a pony and cart. In 1904, Holt went into partnership with his younger brother E ...

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, Burnley & Pendle, Bolton Coachways,

Mayne Coaches Mayne Coaches is a coach operator with depots in Manchester and Warrington. Administrators were appointed to the business, following an insolvency notice issued on 14 February 2022. Mayne Coaches now operates under the Go Goodwins Group of Eccle ...

Citibus Tours Citibus was an English bus operator in Greater Manchester. History Citibus was formed as a coach operator in 1979. In 1983 it obtained a road service licence, and began to compete with GM Buses on their Centreline route in Manchester, and on t ...

Shearings Shearings (legally Shearings Travel Limited) is a coach tour operator, part of the Leger Shearings Group, based in the United Kingdom. The tour operator brand specialises in holidays including escorted tours, unescorted tours, short breaks, se ...

Blue Bus & Coach Services Blue Bus was a large independent bus company serving Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside. History Blue Bus was formed in 1991 by former Shearings managers Roger Jarvis and Alan Turner. It was based at a former railway works in Horw ...

Maytree Travel Maytree Travel was a bus operator based in Bolton in Greater Manchester. History The company was formed in 2008 by owner Gary Hawthorne, who took over the Bolton operations of Tyrer Bus, who first started operating in Bolton in 2007. The compan ...

, JPT and

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. There are frequent buses running to

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, Middleton and

Rawtenstall Rawtenstall () is a town in the borough of Rossendale, Lancashire, England. The town lies 15 miles/24 km north of Manchester, 22 miles/35 km east of Preston and 45 miles/70 km south east of the county town of Lancaster. The town is at the cen ...

plus several parts of the Bury area including Heywood,

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and Tottington. Buses also run from Bury to

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and

Burnley Burnley () is a town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Burnley in Lancashire, England, with a 2001 population of 73,021. It is north of Manchester and east of Preston, at the confluence of the River Calder and River Bru ...

Gallery

Image:M77177 and M65456 and M77182 and M65461 at Bury Interchange station.jpg, Class 504 units at the interchange in 1983. Image:M77173 and M65452 departs Bury Interchange.jpg, A Class 504 leaving the station. The island platform layout of the station, which remains today, is visible in the right-hand corner. Image:From Northern Soul (Bury Neon).jpg, Poet

Ron Silliman Ron Silliman (born August 5, 1946) is an American poet. He has written and edited over 30 books, and has had his poetry and criticism translated into 12 languages. He is often associated with language poetry. Between 1979 and 2004, Silliman wr ...

's neon sculpture ''From Northern Soul (Bury Neon)'' is displayed at the entrance to Bury Interchange. Image:Metrolink bury.jpg, A T-68 tram at Bury Interchange in October 2007.

References

External links

Metrolink Stop InformationBury Metrolink area mapGreater Manchester Passenger Transport ExecutiveTheTrams.co.uk: Metrolink, BuryFirst Manchester
{{Greater Manchester Metrolink stations Bus stations in Greater Manchester Tram stops in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury Railway stations opened by British Rail Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1980 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1991 Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1992 Tram stops on the Altrincham to Bury line Tram stops on the Bury to Ashton-under-Lyne line Buildings and structures in Bury, Greater Manchester