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New guided buses to Leigh from April

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Loss of identity - a town on the rail map is a town people hear of. Leigh is just a bus stop near Manchester.

That would mean Caernarfon having less of an identity than Newtown - perhaps not the most robust theory ;)

Not wishing to sound like a lush but I've done a couple of pub crawls in Histon too - six pubs and a great curry house!!
 

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Very interesting - thank you for the link.

Logically, alot of Walkden's catchment must be to the south/Ellenbrook direction - the north and town centre area is already very well served by the frequency of buses along the A6, so I can see how the busway has made a slight dent.

At one point it was proposed that a second busway could be built along the disused line from the East Lancs Road into Walkden itself, with funding obtained; but the proposal has since been reconfigured as a series infrastructure improvments along the A6 route.
 
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