Bolton Interchange is a bus station in the town of

Bolton Bolton ( , locally ) is a town in Greater Manchester in England. In the foothills of the West Pennine Moors, Bolton is between Manchester, Blackburn, Wigan, Bury, Greater Manchester, Bury and Salford. It is surrounded by several towns and vill ...

, in

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. It is run by

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Background

In January 2010,

(then the GMPTE) started a public consultation about the development of a bus station on Newport Street, replacing the bus station on Moor Lane and the small bus interchange at the

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. Plans for the bus station, designed by architects

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were submitted to Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council in April 2010 and were approved in June 2010. The plans were amended and a second consultation took place between October and December 2010. Approval for construction was granted in March 2012. The new station opened on 3 September 2017."Bolton Interchange opens to the public" '' Coach & Bus Week'' issue 1307 5 September 2017 page 11

Services

The majority of services that serve Bolton bus station are run by the Bee Network. Operators include Go North West, Diamond North West, Blackburn Bus Company, Stagecoach in Lancashire. There are frequent buses running to Bury,

Chorley Chorley is a town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England, north of Wigan, south west of Blackburn, north west of Bolton, south of Preston and north west of Manchester. The town's wealth ca ...

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, Manchester Shudehill, Preston, Radcliffe,

Rochdale Rochdale ( ) is a town in Greater Manchester, England, and the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale. In the United Kingdom 2021 Census, 2021 Census, the town had a population of 111,261, compared to 223,773 for the wid ...

and

Wigan Wigan ( ) is a town in Greater Manchester, England. The town is midway between the two cities of Manchester, to the south-east, and Liverpool, to the south-west. It is the largest settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan and is its ad ...

, plus several parts of the Bolton area, such as Breightmet, Deane, Harwood, Farnworth,

Great Lever Great Lever is a suburb of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. Historic counties of England, Historically in Lancashire, it is south of Bolton town centre and the same distance north of Farnworth. The district is served by frequent buses runnin ...

, Smithills and Horwich. Buses also run to

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, Rawtenstall and the

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References

External links

Bolton Bus Station Departures – Transport for Greater Manchester
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