Greater Manchester bus route 184

184
First Greater Manchester Wright Eclipse Gemini bodied Volvo B9TL in February 2011 in Oldham
Overview
Operator	First Greater Manchester
Route
Start	Huddersfield bus station or Diggle or Uppermill or Grotton
Via	Cowlersley Linthwaite Slaithwaite Marsden Standedge Diggle Dobcross Uppermill Grasscroft Grotton Lees Oldham Hollins Hollinwood Failsworth Newton Heath
End	Manchester Piccadilly bus station
Service
Frequency	Monday-Saturday daytime: 2 per hour (Uppermill-Manchester) 1 per hour (Huddersfield-Manchester) 1 per hour (Grotton-Manchester) Sunday daytime: 15 mins (Uppermill-Manchester) 120 mins (Huddersfield-Manchester) Evenings: 60 mins (Uppermill-Manchester)
Journey time	61 minutes (Grotton-Manchester) 71 minutes (Uppermill-Manchester) 124 minutes (Huddersfield-Manchester)
Operates	04:42-00:25 (Monday-Saturday), 06:11-23:55 (Sunday)
Route map Huddersfield bus stn Cowlersley Linthwaite Slaithwaite Marsden Standedge W.Yorks / Gtr Mcr boundary Diggle, Old Station Turning Diggle, Huddersfield Road Dobcross Uppermill Greenfield railway station Grasscroft Grotton Lees Oldham Mumps Oldham town centre Oldham bus station Hollins M60 motorway Hollinwood Failsworth Newton Heath Miles Platting Manchester, Piccadilly Gardens This diagram: ← {{{previous_line}}}  {{{system_nav}}}  {{{next_line}}} →

Greater Manchester bus route 184 is operated by First Greater Manchester. The service runs hourly Monday-Saturday daytime on its full route between Manchester and Huddersfield via Oldham.

The one hourly journey is complemented by an additional two journeys an hour between Uppermill and Manchester and one an hour between Grotton and Manchester. Combined with its sister service, route 180, which runs between Greenfield and Manchester, there are six buses an hour with a bus running every 10 minutes between Grotton and Manchester. During evenings, route 184 runs an hourly service between Uppermill and Manchester and during the day on Sundays, the service runs its full route every two hours. Some journeys run between Uppermill and Manchester

The service started as route 14 on 15 May 1929, running between Uppermill and Manchester and was operated by Oldham, Manchester & North Western. A couple of months later, route 13 (later re-numbered 183) was introduced running between Uppermill and Manchester via Delph, with journeys running as a 13 changing into a 14 at Uppermill and vice versa. Over the years, the service did not go through many changes to the service, with its only changes being the terminus in Manchester, using Lower Mosley Street, Parker Street, Chorlton Street and Piccadilly Gardens, and the name of the operator, which changed from North Western to SELNEC (during which was re-numbered to 184), and then to Greater Manchester Transport and to Greater Manchester Buses.

Following bus deregulation on 26 October 1986, the route was taken over by GM Buses. On 31 December 1993, GM Buses was split into two, GM Buses North and GM South Buses, the former of which became the main operator of route 184.

In March 1996, GM Buses North was bought by FirstBus and renamed Greater Manchester Firstbus, later becoming First Manchester and First Greater Manchester. In 2001, the service was extended from Uppermill to Diggle via Dobcross, replacing route 427, which was an all-stopping equivalent to route 184. The extension saw the end of the workings with route 183, which was extended to Greenfield to compensate for the loss.