Here is our new bus leaving our depot.
Ronnie is the first driver to drive our 70 plate bus.
We have a very special moment for you. Once this post has reached 70 or more Shares/Retweets we will put everyone's name into hat & draw a winner, who will win a goody bag.
#GetSharing
Today we've had the pleasure of joining TfGM & the Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham in unvailing the 1st Bee Network Bus.
Keep an eye on our Social Media channels today we're we'll keep you updated as to where the bus is on our network.
#BeeNetwork
#TfGM
BIG WHEELS KEEP ON TURNING!!!!!!!
Look what has just arrived at our Bolton depot!
The first of 128 brand new Street Deck Buses.
#investingingreatermanchester
The first of our brand new buses taking to the road this morning.
After having it is vinyls fitted yesterday it is now out serving our customers.
This bus is out and about on our routes today. Take a nice picture of it and mention us in a post.
This afternoon we have welcomed another 3 new StreetDeck buses to our fleet, these will be getting liveried up this weekend and out on the road on next week. These join the other 10 brand new buses we have out in the region.
We want your help.
We want to know where you want to see Julià?
We want to put Julià on a route near you?
Let us know your route and we will try our best to get it on there, we will let you know in advance of when you can see her.
Birthday Present Number 1,
Welcome to the fleet Julià.
Julià will be doing a couple of trips between the Bolton Depot and Bolton Town Centre this morning.
And will be in service very soon so lets all wish for some sunny weather. ☀️☀️
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
We are SO EXCITED to announce a new corporate partnership with
@Sidley_OUAS
We will be partnered with Once Upon a Smile for 2021 & we are delighted to give them their very own branded bus!
If you spot their bus around please tweet them your pictures using
#OUASBUS
🚌
Why is it that you wait for a bus and then two turn up at once!!!
These two buses have just arrived and we have hit the milestone of putting 50 new buses into Greater Manchester.
We launch our new 20 service providing local links between Bolton, Eccles, and
@intuTraffordC
, Working in partnership with
@OfficialTfGM
, our service 68 will extend from Little Hulton to Bolton, giving the community a link to the fast growing employment area Logistics North.
To mark the Queens Platinum Jubilee, we are proud to reveal our commemorative livery.
Keep your eyes out on the road to see if you can spot it out on our network.
Our new 21 service, launching 25th October, will provide handy new links to employment and leisure from Clifton. We have worked in partnership with
@OfficialTfGM
to create this new, simpler and more convenient network; it just shows what can be achieved from working together.
In amongst all theses troublesome times we would like to welcome one of our many new buses this year into our ranks.
MX20 HVF
This will soon go in and get its branding put on it and be out on the road soon.
As one training ends!!! Another one begins!!!
Rather than scrapping this bus we were able to support our local police force by giving this bus to GMP to assist in their training.
Following today’s announcement by Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, Diamond Bus North West are pleased to announce that we are now winners of 8 franchises across the Greater Manchester Network.
We were out yesterday working in partnership with
@boltoncouncil
. With the use of our open top bus, we were able to access low hanging trees along our 511 route, this will allow us to now use double deck buses on this route and aid social distancing for our customers.
Recently Diamond Bus North West have had the privilege to welcome the
@BBC
to film for a new day time tv series onto our buses. The crew travelled around whilst our buses were 'IN SERVICE' to film links for a series due to air in April.
Final preparations are ongoing for Julia's Maiden voyage on the Number 8 this morning, The bus will leave Bolton Interchange at 10.02am.
Further details to follow
Our Brand New Euro 6 (greener) 163 branded buses will be getting you between Bury & Manchester whilst protecting our region. All the buses have route specific covings with specific maps to help our customers that little bit more.
@OfficialTfGM
@AndyBurnhamGM
@PhilipBurke1
Today we commenced branding another major bus corridor & another milestone passed with over 100 Brand New Euro 6 buses into Greater Manchester
This demonstrates our commitment, complete the consultation don't fix what isn't broken
#FIXCONGESTION
is the key
@greatermcr
@MayorofGM
This week we welcome 14 new buses, These new buses total a staggering £2.8 million.
With another 14 next week that's £5.6 million we've spent on buses for Gtr Manchester in 2 Weeks.
@OfficialTfGM
@MENnewsdesk
@TheBoltonNews
@MayorofGM
It is important to share with you the vandalism we are experiencing on our vehicles. This vandalism resulted in YOUR No. 8 not operating. We are looking at our state of the art cctv to identify the culprits whilst also asking the local authorities to assist us with these issues.
Heading to
@intuTrafford
Centre this weekend? Forget the traffic & parking stress - take Diamond 126 from Leigh Astley or Boothstown; or Diamond 132 from Wigan Hindley or Atherton & check out our 4 new Micro-hybrid Streetlite buses in their new Diamond Bus livery
We have 5 Brand New Double Deck Vehicles out on our routes today.
Get your cameras ready and get snapping.
we also have 2 more in our Shed and hopefully these will be done and on the road tomorrow
#bigwheelskeeponturning
Here is our two brand new route branded number 8's, that have just been vinyled.
We will be doing the last few bits to them and then they will be out on their routes later this week.
Just incase you missed the announcement last week, we
are bringing 128 double deck buses in to the local community in 2020 to replace the buses we leased from First.
For Sale 5 x 62/13 Reg VolvoB5 Hybrid Double Deckers with a Wrights Gemini Eclipse body.
💷 From £45,000 each
For more information email bob.dunn
@rotala
.co.uk
This morning we had the pleasure of welcoming our 1st 70 plate bus & we believe this is the first in Greater Manchester.
We are working very quickly to get this vinyled & ready for service and hopefully will be out on the road serving you very shortly.
@OfficialTfGM
@MayorofGM
Good morning Bolton! Brave the weather & come and say hello, we are near the railway station with one of our lovely new buses, and our team are on the bus station.
We'll be here until around 10am, then Bury from around 10.30am until Midday. We'll be in Manchester from 1pm.
Back after popular demand Julia will again be serving our passengers on the number 8 route,
She will be leaving Bolton Interchange 13:50 and she will be starting her return journey from Shudehill at 15:02
Diamond Bus North West will still be running our buses and journeys as we have done today, to get all the critical workers to their jobs to help in this troubling time.
Thank you to everybody who are trying to keep us all safe and to everybody please stay safe.
This is to show Every Key worker from all Bus Drivers to Shop Workers to Pharmacists we appreciate what you are doing on the Front Line at the moment. Thank you.
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#CoronaCrisis
#lightitblue
Bee Network bus will continue to run to & from Manchester today on 8 route.
Manchester is the starting point to many revolutions including Women rights. Why not pop to Manchester on the Bee network & see Emmeline Pankhurst statue?
Bee safe
JE🔹 🐝
#diamondbusNW
#beenetwork
Ourselves and
@rotalabus
are pleased to announce that terms have been agreed for Diamond to take over
@FirstManchester
’s Weston Street depot in Bolton.
We would like to welcome our new colleagues, and look forwards to working with you!
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Today we’re announcing our intention to sell our Bolton depot. Our staff and around 18 bus services will transfer to
@rotalabus
when the sale completes.
Birthdays and Anniversaries only come around once a year............
So when they do, you need to celebrate 🎉🎉🎉
So this month we will be celebrating our 1st Birthday at Bolton Depot..
Watch this space for some very special things......
Nice to see this Wright's bodied Street Decker (ex demonstrator) arriving at its new home in Bolton ready for Driver Vehicle Familiarisation in preparation for what's to come..............
#TwoToneBlue
To all key workers especially our Drivers we applaud you
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More pictures from last nights vandalism which meant we had to cancel the 17:25 37 from Bolton and the returning 36 at 19:30 from Manchester
Transport for Greater Manchester Manchester Evening News Bolton News Andy Burnham
We received this email.
I work for Bolton NHS foundation trust, I see your posts thanking the NHS & other key workers & I just wanted to take a moment to say a big thank you to everyone at Diamond bus.
Without you I couldn't get to work to help my patients.
Stay safe ♥️
Today we are in Manchester Central for Mayor’s charity Bus Pull!
Teams of 5 will be pulling a Mercedes Citaro 30 meters in the fastest time to be crowned Manchester’s Strongest Team.
JE
#BEEnetwork
#Diamondstrong
#strongestteam
#TeamDiamond
Another damaged bus by vandals, This has meant our vehicle has been off the road a number of days therefore not been out promoting our great charity partner, Last week we lost 10 windows due to vandalism & all this does is impact the service we give to our customers.
@Sidley_OUAS
Diamond Bus are pleased to announced that we have just been named Company of the Year at the Build Back Bolton Awards 2022. Congratulations to the whole team.
We have been looking daily at passenger numbers and have decided from Tuesday for safe travel we will increase our timetables and bring back all services except express services.
Please help each other and travel when it is essential.
We are at MediaCityUK today, with one of our service 13 buses. Serving Worsley, Eccles, Monton, Salford Quays and Media City, service 13 starts on Monday 28th January.
@FirstManchester
@StagecoachGM
@MediaCityUK
We were thrilled this weekend to win ‘Best post 2019 Bus Award’ at Showbus in Hertfordshire. The winning bus formed part of our 128 strong commitment in new buses for the North West.
Just a recap from Yesterday we are please to welcome MX20 HVF into our ranks.
This will soon go in and get its branding put on it and be out on the road soon.
We have been looking daily at passenger numbers and how this effects social distancing, so for safe travel, we have increased our timetables and brought back all services except express services.
Please help each other and travel when it is essential.
Julia will be out and about today on the Number 8, She will be leaving bolton in the next hour and will be heading into Manchester and Back. Look out for her and send in your pics if you have some.
We’re up and running from
#Bolton
. Services have already started from earlier on this morning, and there should be some
#TwoToneBlue
liveried buses out and about today, just can’t say where yet.
For info on our new services, head over to to find out more.
Vinyls Complete on the first brand new Street Decker in the completed TwoTone livery for
@DiamondBusNW
this morning. Nine more closely following this one for our new Bolton Depot operation starting 11 August 2019.
Yesterday we received an amazing gesture
@Morrisons
Altas Mill donated Easter eggs from for our drivers to say thank you.
In return we would also like to thank all the shop workers keeping the day to day running of our supermarkets open and stocked so we can buy our essentials.
Service:524
Due to a serious RTC near Radcliffe Centre, these buses were diverted. It operates 471 routes from and to Bury. It will be a normal route from Ainsworth Lane.
Service: 8, 36, 37 & 163
With roads becoming busier are experiencing delays on Manchester services
Please take a look at our mobile app to track your bus, find important travel updates and more.
Travel Safe
JE🔹 🐝
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