Bus/rail integration - or maybe not - at Glazebury

This photo was taken to promote road and rail public transport in Manchester, and we see a very smart Greater Manchester Transport bus on Warrington Road, Glazebury, south of Leigh; while a British Rail Diesel Multiple Unit train speeds over the bridge above, on the famous 1830 Liverpool - Manchester railway over Chat Moss.

The bus is empty and next to the kerb, so we think the bus was parked and the photographer simply waited for a train to come along. The bus isn't new, being a few years old but recently repainted. On the original photo we can tell that the correctly set blinds show the bus going to Warrington Arpley bus station, which closed in 1979, so the photo must date from before then.

The advert on the side of the bus reads 'Saver Seven - Just the ticket for buses and trains'. Presumably the photographer was no historian, because then they would have seen the irony that once upon a time, there was a railway station here, Glazebury & Bury Lane, closed in 1958. It is thought that the Chat Moss Hotel, just off to the right of this photo, was built by the Liverpool & Manchester Railway and used as the booking office when the line first opened.

If you'd like to know more about the Manchester Museum of Transport and its collection of vintage buses, go to www.gmts.co.uk.

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Taken in: United Kingdom / England / Glazebury (show map)

Taken on: January 1, 1978

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