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Bury
Bury
Metrolink station
	An M5000 terminating at Bury Interchange in January 2017.
General information
Location	Bury, Bury; England
Coordinates	53°35′29″N 2°17′49″W / 53.5914°N 2.2970°W
Grid reference	SD804105
Line(s)	Bury Line
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	In operation
Fare zone	4
History
Opened	17 March 1980
Original company	London Midland Region of British Railways
Key dates
17 August 1991	Closed as a rail station
6 April 1992	Conversion to Metrolink operation
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Location

Bury Interchange is a transport hub in the town of Bury, Greater Manchester, England. Opened in 1980, it is the northern terminus of the Manchester Metrolink's Bury Line, which prior to 1992 was a heavy-rail line. It also incorporates a bus station.

History edit

Bury Interchange was opened by British Rail in March 1980, integrating a new bus station with the northern terminus of the Bury-to-Manchester 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 East Lancashire Railway. The railway was redeveloped in the early-1990s to become part of the Manchester Metrolink network in 1992, forming the northern terminus.^[1] The interchange is managed by Transport for Greater Manchester and has recently been refurbished, improving facilities and security for passengers.^[2]

Lines around Bury

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Past, present and future

Holcombe Brook

Greenmount

Knowles Level Crossing Halt

to Rossendale

Brandlesholme Road Halt

to Rochdale Lines

Radcliffe Black Lane

Buckley Wells

(proposed)

Withins Lane

Bradley Fold

Ainsworth Road

Liverpool and Bury Railway

to Bolton

to Salford

to Manchester

Metrolink services edit

Service pattern edit

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

Preceding station	Manchester Metrolink			Following station
Radcliffe towards Piccadilly		Piccadilly–Bury		Terminus
Radcliffe towards Altrincham		Altrincham–Bury (peak only)		Terminus

Bus services edit

As of March 2024, most services from Bury Interchange are operated on behalf of Transport for Greater Manchester (Bee Network), with a large amount being run by Stagecoach Manchester and Go North West, with a smaller amount being run by Diamond Bus North West and First Manchester, all of which are operated under the new franchised Bee Network integrated system.^[3] A couple of cross - boundary routes run from the interchange, to Blackburn and Burnley, which are ran by Rosso. Now-defunct operators which have run services to or from the interchange in the past have included Ribble Motor Services, Crosville Motor Services, Yelloway Motor Services, Bee Line Buzz Company, Burnley & Pendle, Bolton Coachways, Mayne Coaches, Citibus Tours, Shearings, Blue Bus & Coach Services, Maytree Travel, and JPT.

There are frequent buses running to Manchester, Rochdale, Bolton, Langley Estate (Middleton), Middleton and Rawtenstall plus several parts of the Bury area including Heywood, Radcliffe, Whitefield, Prestwich, Ramsbottom and Tottington. Buses also run from Bury to Salford, Blackburn and Burnley.

Gallery edit

Class 504 units at the interchange in 1983.
A Class 504 leaving the station. The island platform layout of the station, which remains today, is visible in the right-hand corner.
Poet Ron Silliman's neon sculpture From Northern Soul (Bury Neon) is displayed at the entrance to Bury Interchange.
A T-68 tram at Bury Interchange in October 2007.

References edit

^ "Bury Bolton Street". Disused Railways. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
^ "Bury Interchange in line for safety improvements". GMPTE. Archived from the original on 31 July 2012. Retrieved 19 January 2008.
^ "Bee Network bus services". Bee Network bus services | Bee Network | Powered by TfGM. Retrieved 29 January 2024.