Tag: Sale
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Buses and coaches in Sale – Part 4
Not read from the beginning click here Part Four – Local Coach Operators When I lived out in the middle of Cheshire and made monthly shopping trips to Manchester with my parents, the number 36 passed the garages of three coach operators as it travelled along the A56 through Altrincham and Sale. The first was…
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Buses and coaches in Sale – Part 3
Not read from the beginning click here Part 3 – Express Services The A56 trunk road entered the Borough of Sale from the north at Crossford Bridge, where the River Mersey marked the boundary with Stretford (and Cheshire’s boundary with Lancashire), and was known as Chester Road until the junction with Dane Road. It then…
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Buses and coaches in Sale – Part 2
Not read from the beginning click here Part Two – North Western In 1923 British Automobile Traction, the motor bus subsidiary of BET, restructured its “branch” in Cheshire and northern Derbyshire as a subsidiary known as the North Western Road Car Company. At that time the new company had major bases in Macclesfield and Stockport…
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Buses and coaches in Sale – Part 1
Not read from the beginning click here Part One – Manchester Corporation Sale is divided into two equal halves by the A56 trunk road which runs along a north north east to south south west axis through the centre of the town. Three main east-west routes cross the A56. The southernmost of these (Harboro Road…
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Buses and Coaches in Sale
Introduction Until the age of nine I lived in a small village near Northwich in the middle of Cheshire. One of the delights of these younger years was the monthly family shopping trip to Manchester, usually on a Saturday, which involved a long journey on North Western’s route 36. By the early 1960s the vehicles…