Tag: Stockport Corporation
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Early interest in Buses
I’m not sure from where I get my interest in transport – it certainly isn’t a family tradition. In the late 1940s my father was a maintenance electrician with Williamson’s ticket printers of Ashton under Lyne which printed tens of millions of bus tickets. He sometimes brought transport magazines home and, even before I could…
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To School by Bus – Part Four
Not read Part Three Click here I mentioned that the daytime schedule on the #31 was not enhanced at rush periods and there was a good reason for this – the #31A. The #31 ran from Manchester, by 1958 using the Chorlton St terminus, to the Cheshire village of Bramhall and was exclusively MCTD. Never…
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To School by Bus – Part Three
Not read Part Two Click here The alternative route to school in 1958 was through Didsbury and Withington, along Wilmslow Rd. As with the route along Kingsway there were two services available but they were of an altogether different nature to the #29 and #40. The Manchester #1 was a limited stop service between Gatley…
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To School by Bus – Part Two
Not read Part One Click here In September 1958 the Manchester Corporation #40 from Parrs Wood to Albert Sq was entrusted to the Northern Counties bodied 1953/54 batch of Leyland PD2s (3300-3329) all of which were delivered to Parrs Wood where most stayed for the next 15 or so years until withdrawn – apart from…
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To School by Bus – Part One
54 years ago few children were driven to school by their parents and most of those who, at ten or eleven, passed the Eleven Plus exam and went on to grammar school (and not a few who didn’t and went to secondary or technical school) found themselves travelling by bus using normal services, often changing…
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From Heaton Moor to Ashton under Lyne 1956
In early 1955 my father started work as a rep for a London based electronics components company, covering the whole of the UK and Ireland except the Home Counties – though visits to London were frequent. During school holidays I used to travel the country with him and was able to see a much wider…
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Stockport Corporation Transport Fleet 1958-1969
At the start of 1958 Stockport Corporation’s transport undertaking was in a relatively healthy state. Unlike its large neighbour, Manchester, it had not suffered too greatly from public ire at the ever rising cost of fares as it had been able to keep fares relatively stable (apart from a halfpenny increase on all fares at…
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The First PTEs – Part Three – Stockport Corporation
Not read from the beginning, click here On October 31st 1969 Stockport Corporation Transport had a fleet of 148 buses plus a handful of service vehicles. The next day all had been transferred to the Southern division of SELNEC whose management may have been rather surprised to find they had taken on charge a 1926…
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Stockport Corporation – Leyland Titan – KJA 871F – 71/5871
Copyright Ken Jones Stockport Corporation1968Leyland Titan PD3/14East Lancs H38/32R KJA 871F is a Leyland Titan PD3/14 with East Lancs H38/32R body, new to Stockport Corporation as their no. 71 in February 1968. It is preserved at The Manchester Museum of Transport in Boyle Street, Cheetham Hill. Greater Manchester. The museum is next to an operational…
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Stockport Corporation – Leyland Titan PD2 – EDB 547 – 293
Copyright Roger Cox Stockport Corporation1951Leyland Titan PD2/1Leyland H30/26R I note with some surprise that Stockport Corporation does not feature in the list of operators on the website, so perhaps this picture of two of Stockport’s excellently proportioned all Leyland PD2s might redress this omission. I believe that I took this photograph, which dates from 1969,…