benji
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Post by benji on Sept 8, 2017 19:38:46 GMT -1
Just been trying to organize some bus travel for my grandaughter and I came across timetables for the 53 bus that ran from Cheetham Hill to Trafford Park. It was a fantastic service that took hundreds of workers to work at the Park. I did not think it was still running because I never see any 53's in my travels. In it's hayday it was probably running every 5/10 minutes but now it is something like every 15.
Has anybody got some stories about the 53?
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Post by jackaitch on Sept 9, 2017 10:43:38 GMT -1
I remember riding the 53 when we went to Belle Vue we would board at the junction of thingyenson Road/Platt Fields area travel up to Stockport Road left to Kirkenshulme Lane under the bridge to the dog track....all on "tanner" ticket (you could go anywhere a bus went as many times available until
4.0 pm. for sixpence..we always used to count the number of PUBS still standing,which was amazing,especially around Hulme,Moss Side areas
now that was a long time ago...some 7o years
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Post by jackaitch on Sept 9, 2017 10:49:39 GMT -1
thingyenson was suppossed to read "at the junction of thingyenson Road/Platt Fields are"......my appologies
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Post by jackaitch on Sept 9, 2017 10:51:17 GMT -1
I typed the correct spelling thingyenson and this was the result
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Post by jackaitch on Sept 9, 2017 10:53:12 GMT -1
It must be a computer "blackout" of a four letter word short for Richard or his nickname
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Post by jonesg on Nov 7, 2017 14:01:34 GMT -1
Like the playwright Charles dikkens?
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Post by jonesg on Nov 7, 2017 14:04:19 GMT -1
Curious how that bus ended up at old Trafford, I also took it to belle vue to see the aces dirtbike racing team.
I lived in fallowfield a lifetime ago.
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