Greater Manchester bus route 17
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| Operator | First Greater Manchester | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Start | Rochdale Interchange | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Castleton Middleton Harpurhey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| End | Manchester Shudehill Interchange | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Frequency | All Day | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operates | 05:00 until 23:00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Greater Manchester Bus route 17 operates between Rochdale Interchange and Manchester Shudehill Interchange. From Rochdale Interchange it travels through Sudden and Castleton to Middleton bus station, and then continues through Blackley, Harpurhey and Collyhurst to Manchester Shudehill Interchange. It has a sister service 18 which operates on the same route between Manchester and Middleton, and serves Langley. One service per day (17A) serves Stake Hill Industrial Estate.[1]
History
The service was named and run by Rochdale Corporation Transport, from 1964 up until the 1970s when it was taken over by SELNEC. In the 1980/90s it was run by GM Buses before FirstGroup took over the company. The number 17 is one of the few remaining numbers from the original numbering system of Rochdale Corporation Transport.[2]
Current route
- Rochdale
- Rochdale Interchange
- Broadfield Park
- Mandale Park
- Highfield Hospital
- Sudden Tesco
- Castleton
- Castleton railway station
- Trub
- Slattocks
- Norton Grange Hotel
- All-In-One Garden Centre
- Stake Hill - (Stake Hill Industrial Estate served by service 17A)
- Hopwood Hall - (Hopwood Hall College served by service 719)
- Cardinal Langley High School
- Stanycliffe
- Hollin
- Middleton
- Middleton bus station
- Alkrington
- Boggart Hole Clough
- Blackley
- Harpurhey
- Queen's Park
- Sandhills
- Manchester
- Shudehill Interchange
References
- ↑ First Group. "Manchester High Frequency Network map" (PDF). Retrieved 16 October 2011.
- ↑ When buses were the only way to go for most people Manchester Evening News 20 April 2010