UK North was an English bus operator in
Manchester
Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...
. In early 2005, it revived the
GM Buses
GM Buses was the main bus company serving the ten metropolitan districts of Greater Manchester in North West England. The company was formed in 1986 by the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive. In December 1993, it was split into GM ...
name. It operated services including on routes
42, 86 and
192.
However, this was to be short lived as services were suspended during the 2006 Christmas period, over safety fears after several buses were involved in accidents. These included a man
who was killed in an incident involving a UK North bus.
UK North were found to have been engaging in unsafe work practices with two managers jailed.
D-Day for 'bus wars' bosses
''Manchester Evening News'' 18 April 2010
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2007 disestablishments in England
Former bus operators in Greater Manchester