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Route 162

Route: Piccadilly - Blackley - Middleton - Langley - Heywood - Rochdale

Service changes

Date Change details
07/02/1987 Commercial Daily Nights: 0050 0235 OUT 2355 0140 IN
26/02/2001 Check entry
23/09/2001 Check entry
23/05/2004 (Mis print??) MS daytime 0935 hrly 1735.
26/07/2004 Times and route changed. Now serves NMGH, but Rhodes and Broadmoss Drive no longer served. Now run by BLUEBIRD
01/09/2008 service withdrawn and partly replaced by revised 115
Norden - Bamford - Heywood - Langley - Middleton - Manchester
03/09/2012 New peak 162 partially replacing 167: M-F 0646 0708 0736 IN: 1645 ev30mins 1815 OUT
27/01/2013 Times changed: 0646 0706 0736 IN; 1645 ev30mins 1815 OUT
01/09/2013 no change
26/01/2014 no change
27/07/2014 M-F times changed during Summer to 30 August 2014
31/08/2014 Normal timetable following the Summer period.
25/01/2015 Some M-F early E jnys from Manchester retimed.
19/07/2015 M-F times changed during Summer to 29 August
30/08/2015 normal timetable at the end of the Summer period.
03/04/2016 Times changed
03/04/2016 times changed: 0631 0651 0721 IN; 1645 ev30mins 1815 OUT
24/07/2016 Times changed including temporary changes during Summer to 3 September 2016
04/09/2016 Times changed: 0635 0655 0725 IN 1645 ev30mins 1815 OUT
30/10/2016 Times changed: 0635 0655 0720 IN 1645 ev30mins 1815 OUT
29/01/2017 no change
23/04/2017 Times changed: 0638 0655 0722 IN 1645 ev30mins 1815 OUT
23/07/2017 New entry: Summer timetable M-F until 2/9/2017
03/09/2017 Normal timetable at end of the summer period.
28/01/2018 no change listed
08/04/2018 Times changed
22/07/2018 New entry: Summer timetable M-F until 1/9/2018
28/10/2018 no change listed
27/01/2019 no change
02/06/2019 no change listed
21/07/2019 Summer service MF changes until 31 August
11/08/2019 Service now operated by Diamond on sale of FM Bolton depot
01/09/2019 Normal timetable at end of summer period
27/10/2019 Times of some MF jnys are changed. 
26/01/2020 Some early M-F times changed
23/03/2020 162 to run 2 per hour at peak-Times on M-Fs.
28/03/2020 All journeys are suspended temporarily:
14/04/2020 All journeys are suspended temporarily:
10/05/2020 All journeys are suspended temporarily:
26/05/2020 services restored. M-F peak: 0638 0702 0726 inbound: 1641 1717 1741 outbound
14/06/2020 Peak: 0638 0702 0726 inbound; 1641 1717 1741 from Picc;
26/07/2020 Minor timing changes: Peak services 0642 0702 0722 IN: 1643 1713 out;
30/08/2020 TfGM Bus Guide issued: times changed
31/08/2020 Minor timing changes: Peak services 0631 0655 0722 IN: 1645 1715 1745 out;
25/10/2020 no changes
31/01/2021 Service 162 will run 2 /hr at peak-times (from ev30mins).
28/02/2021 NO CHANGE LISTED
11/04/2021 Times changed.
29/08/2021 Timetable changes
30/01/2022 Times of some journeys on service 162 are slightly adjusted.
24/07/2022 Summer timetables from 24 July to 3 Sept 2022
04/09/2022 Returns to normal after Summer Reductions  
04/09/2022 Reverts to pre-summer times
29/01/2023 Route withdrawn and partly replaced by addtl 163 jnys between Heywood and Manchester and bus 17 for jnys from Norden and Bamford to Middleton, Blackley, Harpurhey, Collyhurst and Manchester. Customers at Norden are advised to use either revised service 17

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