Changes to local Rosso bus services from 24 April

There will be several changes to Rosso bus services in Rochdale from Sunday 24 April, following a renewed partnership with Transport for Greater Manchester. 

TfGM will help fund more evening and Sunday buses, some new links between Milnrow and Littleborough and to Kingsway and Stakehill business parks.

Ten low emission buses are joining the fleet for Rochdale and Oldham routes. 

Some school buses will be replaced by the new routes below, and others replaced by different operators. TfGM and your school will have details of these changes.

Lakeline: view the timetable here

Buses which currently run as the 456 will instead run as the 458, meaning you’ll have a bus every 30 minutes through Stubley and Hollingworth Lake. Stubley will now be served by the R5 which runs to Littleborough, Milnrow and Rochdale.  Evening and Sunday 458 will still run every hour. Customers for school bus 857 from Stansfield to Wardle Academy will now use the 458 instead – it will run to Shore and Stansfield at school times.

Lakeline 457 will still run hourly for now, whilst Transdev continues to recruit more drivers. Buses will also run every hour in the evening and on Sunday – this serves Shore and Stansfield instead of the 458.

Trax: view the timetable here

There are a few small changes to the evening and Sunday timetable on Trax with a through bus to Rochdale at 23.06 Monday to Saturday and 23.10 on Sunday. Sunday morning 468 buses will leave Rochdale at 7am and 8am then bus every half hour (combined 467/468, as now) after that.

Rochdale Runners

• R1 Syke

There are minor changes to the timetable – buses will still run hourly all day every day.

• R2 Rochdale, Norden, Heywood and Bury

Extra early morning and teatime trips introduced.

• R3/R13 Wallbank

These services are being simplified so buses serve Shawclough Way, Paton Street and Bentley Street all the time. All buses will show R3. A new hourly evening bus will run Rochdale to Healey Corner every day. Sunday daytime buses will still run hourly to Wallbank. The 7.37am bus from Healey Corner will run to St Cuthbert’s School with a double decker and replaces school bus 867. It returns at 3pm.

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Buses to Milnrow, Shaw and High Crompton

These buses are completely revised to give an improved every 20-minute timetable from Milnrow to Rochdale. Rosso’s R4, R5, 435 and First’s 408 are replaced by new R4, R5, R9 and R10.

• R4 Rochdale to Ladyhouse

Bus R4 will run every hour Monday to Saturday during the day to Leyfield Road and The Cray, Milnrow, Sycamore Drive, Newhey and Peppermint Bridge.

• R5 Rochdale to Peppermint Bridge

Bus R5 will run every hour and brings back the old 452 bus. This will run on Rochdale Road to Milnrow, Wellington Street and Hurstead Road then to Smithybridge, Stubley and Littleborough.

• R9 and R10 Rochdale to Foxholes

The R9 and R10 are circulars replacing the 408 and 435. The R9 follows the 408 from Rochdale through Milnrow and Newhey to Buckstones and Shaw then the 435 route through High Crompton and Turf Hill back to Rochdale. Use the R10 in the opposite direction.

Evenings and Sundays the R9 will run hourly Rochdale to Milnrow, Buckstones and Shaw and the R10 run hourly the other way.

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• R6 Rochdale to Kirkholt Circular

The new R6 route to Kingsway Business Park (replacing the Local Link service) will start at Milnrow Kiln Drive, serve Ladyhouse, Kingsway Business Park and Rochdale town centre. It runs hourly all day every day, though early and late trips won’t serve Ladyhouse.

• R7 Rochdale to Kirkholt then Castleton

The R7 will be changed so it runs into Kingsway Business Park, after Morrisons, before running to Kirkholt and Castleton. It is extended from there to Stakehill Business Park, Boarshaw and Middleton. Buses will run all day every day with new early morning, evening and Sunday trips.

• R8 Norden

There are changes to times, with a bus every hour all day every day.