Diamond Bus North West
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| Parent | Rotala |
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| Founded | April 1998 (as Green Triangle Buses) |
| Headquarters | Atherton |
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Greater Manchester Lancashire Merseyside |
| Service type | Bus services |
| Fleet | 45 (March 2014) |
| Website | www.diamondbusnorthwest.co.uk |
Diamond Bus North West (formerly South Lancs Travel) is a privately owned bus operator providing services in the districts of Bolton and Wigan in Greater Manchester operating an extensive commercial network along with tendered services on behalf of Transport for Greater Manchester. It also serves some areas of the districts of Salford and Trafford.
Green Triangle Buses was established in April 1998 by Martin Bott and David Stewart. The new business began with two new Mercedes-Benz Varios which were used on a Greater Manchester Public Transport Executive tender. These were joined by three South Lancashire Transport (also owned by the two partners) single deckers for use on school services.
Further Varios were quickly added to the fleet, which were used on Green Triangle's first commercial service, route 675 a half-hourly service between Leigh and Shakerley via Astley and Tyldesley.
Less than a year later, route 675 was withdrawn and replaced with the 670/680 circular services. This essentially provided an extension to the existing service, running back to Leigh via Atherton. This was supplemented through the introduction of route 652 (Leigh - Hindley - Wigan). All three services directly competed against the incumbent operator, Bellairs & Dootson.
An opportunity for expansion came in 1998 with the opening of the Trafford Centre. Green Triangle introduced two new daytime services to the centre in the form of the 673 from Atherton and the 674 from Leigh. The 673 only lasted a short time, although the link was later reinstated as the 132; the 674 continues to this day, although it is now numbered 126.
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