Bury Interchange

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Bury
Bury
Metrolink station
	An M5000 terminating at Bury Interchange in January 2017.
Location	Bury, Bury; England
Coordinates	53°35′29″N 2°17′49″W / 53.5914°N 2.2970°WCoordinates: 53°35′29″N 2°17′49″W / 53.5914°N 2.2970°W
Grid reference	SD804105
Line(s)	Bury Line
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	In operation
Fare zone	4
History
Opened	17 March 1980
Original company	London Midland Region of British Railways
Key dates
17 August 1991	Closed as a rail station
6 April 1992	Conversion to Metrolink operation
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Bury Interchange is a transport hub in the town of Bury, Greater Manchester, England. Opened in 1980, it is the northern terminus of the Manchester Metrolink's Bury Line, which prior to 1992 was a heavy-rail line. It also incorporates a bus station.

History[]

Bury Interchange was opened by British Rail in March 1980, integrating a new bus station with the northern terminus of the Bury-to-Manchester heavy railway line, a new short spur line was constructed to connect the new station. The railway had originally run into Bury Bolton Street which was further away from the town centre, and was closed by British Rail on the same day that Bury Interchange opened; Bury Bolton Street is now operated by the heritage East Lancashire Railway. The railway was redeveloped in the early-1990s to become part of the Manchester Metrolink network in 1992, forming the northern terminus.^[1] The interchange is managed by Transport for Greater Manchester and has recently been refurbished, improving facilities and security for passengers.^[2]

Metrolink services[]

Service pattern[]

Services mostly run every 12 minutes on 2 routes, forming a 6-minute service between Bury and Manchester at peak times.

Preceding station		Manchester Metrolink	Following station
Radcliffe towards Altrincham		Altrincham – Bury Line	Terminus
Radcliffe towards Piccadilly		Bury – Piccadilly Line	Terminus
	Proposed
Buckley Wells		Bury Line	Terminus

Bus services[]

The majority of services are run by Go North West and Rosso with the remainder of services run by Arriva North West and Stagecoach Manchester. Now-defunct operators which have run services to or from the interchange in the past have included Ribble Motor Services, Crosville Motor Services, Yelloway Motor Services, Bee Line Buzz Company, Burnley & Pendle, Bolton Coachways, Mayne Coaches, Citibus Tours, Shearings, Blue Bus & Coach Services, Maytree Travel, JPT and First Greater Manchester.

There are frequent buses running to Manchester, Rochdale, Bolton, Middleton and Rawtenstall plus several parts of the Bury area including Heywood, Radcliffe, Ramsbottom and Tottington. Buses also run from Bury to Accrington, Bacup and Burnley.

Gallery[]

Class 504 units at the interchange in 1983.
A Class 504 leaving the station. The island platform layout of the station, which remains today, is visible in the right-hand corner.
Poet Ron Silliman's neon sculpture From Northern Soul (Bury Neon) is displayed at the entrance to Bury Interchange.
A T-68 tram at Bury Interchange in October 2007.