Buses in Rochdale bus station – 15 Apr 1995 (260-05)

Easter Saturday 15 April 1995 – Rochdale attracted a number of different bus operators following deregulation.

This view in the old bus station features buses of two of the independents along with a double decker of what had once been the major incumbent operator now GM Buses North. That vehicle is 4305 (MNC 505W), a Northern Counties bodied Leyland Atlantean AN68A/1R which was new in August 1980 to the then Greater Manchester PTE.

Bu-Val Buses (M Bull) L803 FBA, a locally built Mellor bodied Iveco Turbo Daily 59.12 new in June 1994.

Pioneer Travel C41 HDT, an Optare bodied Dennis Domino that had been new to South Yorkshire PTE in August 1985. Pioneer was subsequently acquired by First Group in the late 1990s.

The bus station (and the multi storey car park above it) along with the adjacent Council building (the ‘black box’) have all been demolished.