General information | |
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Location | Stockport Stockport (borough) |
Coordinates | 53°24′31″N2°09′49″W / 53.40867°N 2.16361°W |
Operated by | Transport for Greater Manchester |
Bus stands | 24 |
Bus operators | High Peak M Travel Go Goodwins Group Stagecoach Manchester First Greater Manchester (until 2017) |
Connections | Stockport railway station |
History | |
Opened | 2 March 1981 |
Closed | 29 August 2021 |
Stockport bus station in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, was a bus terminus for approximately 65 bus services. It opened on 2 March 1981 on the site of a former car park. Before the bus station opened, most services terminated at Mersey Square.
The bus station was located between Wellington Road (A6) and the Stockport Viaduct, a few hundred metres from Stockport railway station. The main bus station had 24 stands. Two additional stops, one for each direction, were located on Wellington Road, which runs between the bus station and Mersey Square; these were used by through services, including the high-frequency 192 route to Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester city centre.
In 2014, plans to demolish the bus station and build a new a £42 million transport interchange on the existing site with a connection to the railway station were announced, but these plans were never carried out. [1] In June 2018, plans were announced for a brand-new bus station (Stockport Interchange), that would be constructed on the same site underneath a 2-acre (0.81 ha) park. Other improved transport links were also to be built, including a bridge to the railway station.
On 29 August 2021 at 03:15, all stands at Stockport bus station (excluding the two Wellington Road stops) were closed after 40 years of continuous operation, being temporarily replaced by a small bus terminal off Heaton Lane, as well as several bus stops spread out across Stockport town centre. The new Stockport Interchange facility was to be completed in 2024; [2] [3] it opened on 17 March that year. [4]
The majority of services were operated by Stagecoach Manchester, with High Peak Buses, Little Gem, Selwyns Travel and Stotts Tours also using the station. [5]
There were frequent buses running to Manchester, Altrincham, Ashton-under-Lyne, Hyde, Levenshulme, Longsight, Manchester Airport and Wythenshawe, plus several parts of the Stockport area including Bramhall, Bredbury, Brinnington, Cheadle, Cheadle Hulme, Edgeley, Hazel Grove, Marple, Offerton, Reddish, Romiley and Stepping Hill Hospital. [5]
Buses were also run from Stockport to Bolton, Buxton, Chorlton, Macclesfield, Hayfield, Poynton, Stretford, the Trafford Centre and Sale. [5]
A full list of services is shown below:
Bus route | From | To | Via |
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7A | Stockport | Ashton-under-Lyne | Gorton and Reddish |
7B | Droylsden and Reddish | ||
11 | Altrincham | Stockport | Baguley, Wythenshawe Hospital, Wythenshawe and Cheadle |
11A | Timperley, Baguley, Gatley and Cheadle | ||
23 | Stockport | Trafford Centre | Didsbury, Chorlton, Stretford and Urmston |
25 | Burnage, Chorlton and Stretford | ||
42 | Stockport | Manchester city centre | Didsbury, Withington and Manchester Royal Infirmary |
191 | Manchester city centre | Hazel Grove | Longsight, Levenshulme, Stockport and Stepping Hill Hospital |
192 | Stockport | Piccadilly Gardens | Heaton Chapel, Levenshulme, Longsight and Ardwick |
197 | Manchester city centre | Green End, Levenshulme and Longsight | |
199 | Buxton | Manchester Airport | Stockport |
203 | Stockport | Manchester city centre | Reddish and Belle Vue |
313 | Manchester Airport | Adswood and Cheadle Hulme | |
314 | Offerton | Offerton Fold | |
322 | Haughton Green | Portwood, Brinnington and Denton | |
323 | Heaton Mersey | ||
324 | Haughton Green | Portwood, Brinnington and Denton | |
325 | Brinnington Circular | Brinnington | |
327 | Denton | Brinnington and Portwood | |
328 | Adswood | Edgeley | |
330 | Ashton-under-Lyne | Stockport | Dukinfield and Hyde |
358 | Stockport | Hayfield | Offerton, Marple and New Mills |
360 | Hazel Grove, Disley and New Mills | ||
364 | Heaton Moor | Woodbank Park and Bosden Farm | |
368 | Wythenshawe Hospital | Adswood, Heald Green and Wythenshawe | |
374 | Hazel Grove | ||
375 | Mellor | Marple, Offerton and Stepping Hill Hospital | |
378 | Cheadle Hulme | ||
378A | Grove Lane | Cheadle Hulme | |
379 | Heald Green | ||
382 | Woodley | Bredbury and Romiley | |
383 and 384 | Stockport | Offerton, Marple, Romiley, Harrytown and Bredbury (383 anticlockwise, 384 clockwise) | |
391 and 392 | Macclesfield | Poynton and Bollington | |
X5 | Sale | ||
X92 | Manchester city centre | Hazel Grove | Stockport |
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