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Rochdale Interchange is a modern, attractive bus and coach station in the Rochdale town centre. It opened in 2013, replacing the town’s 1970s station.

The bright interior is more reminiscent of an airport than a bus station. Facilities include a coffee shop, travel shop, and public toilets. Electronic departure boards provide real-time travel information. It is partially powered by a hydroelectric turbine sited in the adjacent River Roch.

There are around twenty bus stands. Each has a door that automatically opens when the bus arrives. Buses from Rochdale Interchange go to destinations such as Accrington, Bolton, Burnley, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, and Rawtenstall.

Rochdale Town Centre Metrolink Station is just across the road.

Rochdale Interchange is situated on Smith Street (postcode OL16 1TU), just south of the Wheatsheaf Shopping Centre.

The interchange was built as part of a wider multi-million pound scheme to redevelop Rochdale town centre. Another component of the development is Number One Riverside. This striking, award-winning building lies on the other side of the River Roch and is home to Rochdale Central Library and the offices of Rochdale Borough Council.

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Address and postcode Smith Street Rochdale Greater Manchester United Kingdom OL16 1TU

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Excellent customer service at rochdale interchange. The two gentlemen on information , printed me all the bus times to hollingworth lake. I do a column in a bird watching magazine , and they were very helpful. kind regards Mr Steven Green.x

Nice bus station, shame there’s no facilities to let you know when/ where/ if buses are turning up or not.no staff and no information when buses are late

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Once upon a time Rochdale had a bus station that was the envy of nobody,and it was rumoured that even the blind were seen to weep when they had to walk anywhere near it. It was a place where used needles and comdoms congregated in the stairwells,hanging around as they are want with puddles of urine and the heady stench of weed (I know this as I had to clean said stairwells when I worked in the multi storey car park that sat a top of the staion,and many a Saturday morning was spent handling the atrocities). Anyone who viewed the old place was left with the feeling that the Architect either hated his job or his life (Or he was Hieronymus Bosch). Anyway history lesson over,as late last year we got a new bus station,one that has doors so the wind doesn't blow through it,one that has screens that tell you when the next bus is (or isn't) due,one that has a cash machine,and one that at the moment doesn't smell like a Metal Festivals toilets. At the end of the day it is only a bus station,but unless you ever had to use the old one,you won't have a clue what i'm wittering on about,but believe me,it really was as bad as i've made out. Hurrah! For new buildings......

Oooo all new and everything....

R7 not turning up for school. Bus drivers also just drive past you,whilst your standing at a bus stop.common sense should say they're waiting for a bus and stop. I don't want too put any stars

Rochdale have recently redeveloped their bus station, it is in a great location in the city centre located near the Library. The new bus station is very nice, it is a glass building and has 13 stands, a travel shop and everything you would expect from a bus station, it even has screens similar to what you are used to at train stations showing the times of the next buses. I think the improvements are fantastic and since the redevelopment it makes it one of the best bus stations in the area for how it looks and location. UPDATE: (4 stars to 3 - September 2nd 2015) This bus station does have a few flaws which means it is only worth 3 stars: - The services are just above average, and with them coming from a small town, some might take longer, such as National Express services. - They is metrolink nearby, but making this into more of a transport hub, with metrolink going from here as well as other local travel services could be better. - The "New" station excitement has all gone now, with most of the hype behind it and I just don't find this station to be worthy of a higher rating, as it simply is just an above-average bus station.

It's all shiny and new and soulless and clinical. It's a far cry from the urine soaked stairwells of previous bus station incarnations but it's still full of the usual suspects of this fair town of rochdale all robotically shuffling in lines, heads down waiting for a vehicle to take them to their destinations. A depressing waiting room holding a sad snapshot of a cross section of Northern society. Sigh

Love the new bus station. Clean and convenient. Further from shops than the old one is a disadvantage - especially for those with walking difficulties but there is a free bus (number 200) to take you nearer to the shops. Centre of town has some beautiful buildings - old and new. Be proud of our town Rochdalians!

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15 Best Things to Do in Rochdale (Greater Manchester, England)

Now within Greater Manchester, Rochdale has been around since at least the 11th century when it was mentioned in the Domesday Book.

The town rose to prominence through the woollen trade in the 18th century and then went into overdrive as a textile manufacturing mill town in the 19th century.

A striking monument to the boom days is the town hall, one of the best examples of Gothic Revival architecture in the UK. The modern Co-operative Movement, also a product of the industrial period, was born in Rochdale in 1844 when the Rochdale Equitable Pioneers set up a shop in the town, and the very building has been turned into a museum.

1. Rochdale Town Hall

Often hailed as one of the UK’s greatest municipal buildings, Rochdale Town Hall is a Gothic Revival wonder designed by William Henry Crossland and opened in 1871. The clock tower, soaring over the Esplanade and the River Roch, is actually a replacement, as the original burnt down in 1883, to be redesigned by Alfred Waterhouse along the same lines as Manchester Town Hall.

Take some time to appreciate the main facade from the car park, where the portico with three pointed arches is crested by four gilded lions.

Further up you can make out Rochdale’s coat of arms, along an embattled parapet decorated with gargoyles.

Public tours are given on the first Monday of the month, and it’s a chance to grab with both hands, to explore the labyrinth of corridors, the Great Hall, Mayor’s Parlour and old Magistrates’ Retiring Room and enjoy a 15-minute recital on the James Jepson Binns organ installed in 1913.

2. Hollingworth Lake

Excavated in 1800 to feed the Rochdale Canal, Hollingworth Lake evolved into a tourist escape in the Victorian period.

You can see why, as the reservoir has a location full of drama, looking north and east to the Pennines and the distant gritstone escarpment of Blackstone Edge.

Captain Matthew Webb, the first man to swim the Channel in 1875, trained at Hollingworth Lake.

Since the 1970s the lake has belonged to Rochdale Council as a country park and has been revived as a leisure amenity.

There’s an activity centre on the west bank for sailing, kayaking and canoeing, rowing and windsurfing.

Around the shore to the north is the visitor centre, which houses a cafe, a permanent exhibition of local heritage and wildlife and a small art gallery.

You can also pick up a fishing licence at the centre, and see if you can land one of the lake’s many carp, roach, tench, bream and perch.

3. Touchstones

In a lovely Historicist building made from Yorkshire stone, Touchstones is a town museum, art gallery, visitor information centre and study centre.

The venue is the Central Library, Museum and art Gallery, dating from 1883 and extended in 1903 and 1913. As a museum, Touchstones uncovers Rochdale’s human and natural history, charting the cotton mills, Rochdale Canal and the advent of the railway, and showing how the landscape was cut by melting glaciers at the end of the last Ice Age.

You’ll also be introduced to some important Rochdale locals like the Victorian photographer Roger Fenton and the broadcaster John Peel.

Like the museum display, the art gallery is on a constant rotation, calling on a collection of 1,600 pieces by the likes of L. S. Lowry, Charles Burton Barber, Jeremy Critchlow and Jeffrey Edwards.

In spring 2019, “What if We Tried?” was an attempt to hang as much of the collection in a single exhibition, across three galleries.

4. Rochdale Canal

The namesake canal cuts through the south side of Rochdale on its 32-mile course from Castleford Basin in Manchester to Sowerby Bridge in Yorkshire.

Built at the turn of the 19th century, this was a major navigable waterway for its 14-foot-width, accelerating the Industrial Revolution in the region and acting as a highway for cotton, wool, timber, limestone, salt and coal.

Traffic had dried up by the 1920s, and the canal was eventually closed to boats in 1952. But since its restoration was completed in 2002, the Rochdale Canal is one of the few historic waterways that is navigable on its entire length.

Of the 92 original locks, 91 remain, as locks three and four have been merged into one.

And if you want you could walk the 32 miles, or simply break out into the countryside south and east of Rochdale for Pennine scenery and industrial history (the section in the centre of town is a bit gritty).

5. Healey Dell Nature Reserve

Only a couple of miles from Rochdale town centre, Healey Dell is in dense woodland on the tight banks of the tumbling River Spodden.

Here the river has hewn a sharp gorge, and bubbles over rapids and waterfalls that once drove, corn, wool and cotton mills.

Best of all though is the Victorian viaduct spanning the gorge.

This was built in 1867 for a long defunct railway and is a fantastic viewpoint 30 metres over the river.

Faint traces of industrial archaeology await along the river at what’s left of the Broadley Wood Mill, Stone Rubbing Mill and Th’Owd Mill l’th Thrutch.

6. Healey Dell Heritage Centre and Tea Rooms

In the nature reserve’s converted ranger office there’s now an exhibition about the dell’s industrial heritage and a quaint tearoom.

This Victorian building was restored in 2013, and has quickly become essential to any visit to the reserve.

You can come for a light meal, high tea or decadent chocolate fondue, or to peruse the heritage room, which also puts on short-term exhibitions by local artists.

The centre is open on Fridays and weekends, and your meal or tea will often be accompanied by a musician on the baby grand piano.

7. Tandle Hill Country Park

Between Rochdale and Oldham is 110 acres of verdant grassland and haunting mature beech woodland.

When the weather is good Tandle Hill affords romantic views over the Manchester Plain, the Pennines and even across to the Welsh mountains.

You can visit the countryside centre in the park, which has picnic tables out front and presents information about the park’s wildlife and the history of the area.

You could pick up a leaflet on birds regularly sighted at Tandle Hill, and try to spot a lesser redpoll, twite, song thrush or bullfinch.

There’s a children’s play area with a sand pit, while the cafe is open most weekends.

8. Greenbooth Reservoir

There are spellbinding walks to be had at this string of four moorland water reservoirs to the north-west of Rochdale.

The three upper reservoirs to the north were completed in 1846 in the steep valley above the village of Greenbooth.

But as Rochdale grew in the post-war years another reservoir was needed, and so the village was wiped from the map.

The lower reservoir was opened in 1965, and on the side of the dam is a plaque in memory of the village.

There’s a choice of walking loops on this natural ledge overlooking Greater Manchester, letting you explore the landscape for anything from 30 minutes to several hours.

In this rugged Pennine setting you’ll be in the company of flocks of sheep, and will have views to savour to the south, and across to Yorkshire in the east.

9. Rochdale Pioneers Museum

The building at 31 Toad Lane is enshrined in history as the place where the Rochdale Equitable Pioneers started trading in 1844. This was an early consumer co-operative made up of skilled workers like weavers, who were being thrown into poverty by the increased mechanisation of the Industrial Revolution.

The aim was to provide high-quality basics like sugar, tea, butter, tobacco and flour at affordable prices, and the Rochdale Pioneers laid down the foundation for all modern co-operatives around the world.

The pioneers moved out of 31 Toad Lane in 1867, but the Co-operative Movement bought the building and turned it into a museum in 1931. The museum offers context, showing the climate in the mid-19th century, and outlining the principles of the textile manufacturer Robert Owen (1771-1858), one of the founders of utopian socialism and the co-operative movement.

You’ll learn how co-ops helped set the ball rolling for 20th-century reforms involving women’s rights, education and poverty.

10. Ellenroad Engine House

The world’s largest working steam mill engines, Victoria and Alexandra are caged in the engine house of a former spinning mill.

The mill itself, dating to 1890 and rebuilt in 1916, was pulled down in 1982, but the engine house and its boiler chimney were saved.

Victoria and Alexandra were installed in 1917 and together form a twin tandem compound steam engine capable of 3000 hp and so believed to be the most powerful in existence.

Also in working order are Ellenroad’s mill pilot generator engine and sprinkler pump, as well as two more engines sourced from other factories, and the remnants of a third currently being restored.

Victoria and Alexandra are woken from their sleep during Steaming Days on the first Sunday of the month.

There are non-steaming days weekly on Tuesdays, Sundays (outside the first Sunday) and on the first Saturday of the month, when the engine house is open and you can take a look around.

11. Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum

A few landmarks in fire-fighting history have taken place in Manchester.

England’s first municipal fire service was set up here in 1826, while the first ever motorised fire engine in the country was put into service in Eccles in 1901. At Rochdale’s Art Deco fire station, dating to the 1930s, there’s a free museum open Friday and Sunday and recounting this history of fire fighting in the Manchester region.

The museum plunges you into specific time periods, like a Victorian street scene and the depths of the Manchester Blitz in autumn/winter 1940. There are 23 large-scale appliances to inspect, among them a hand-drawn pump from 1741, hose carts from 1900 and 1904, and a fine Dennis Metz 125-ft turntable ladder from 1957.

12. Queen’s Park, Heywood

This Green Flag park came about after the wealthy local merchant Martin J. Newhouse died in 1873. He didn’t make a will so his estate went to Queen Victoria, who donated it back to Heywood.

With those funds, the town built a dignified park for its residents, on the ground sloping down to the River Roch.

Queen’s Park has held onto its Victorian layout, and monuments like the Lodge House and Victoria Fountain.

Awaiting you here is a riverside path, a lake, a visitor centre, a cafe, play areas for little ones, formal flowerbeds, bowling greens and spaces reserved for wetlands and wildlife.

The visitor centre puts on a small exhibition about the history of the park, while lake’s island is inhabited by a large flock of herons.

13. St Edmund’s Church

Now redundant as a place of worship, St Edmund’s Church is Grade I listed and an astounding piece of Victorian religious architecture, blending neo-Gothic with Masonic symbolism.

It was commissioned by the industrialist and freemason Albert Hudson Royds, and was designed, built and decorated to exceptionally high standards.

The degree of Masonic symbolism at St Edmund’s is unheard of in UK churches, and is inescapable in fittings like the hammerbeam roof (embellished with lilies, water-lilies and pomegranates), the lectern, weathervane and in the stained glass windows.

The Royds Chapel is a high point, featuring a window evoking Nehemiah and Ezra, and depicting the Masonic outer guard, the Tyler, holding the Tyler’s sword.

You can also make out an image of Solomon’s Temple, and eagle-eyed observers will see Hudson Royd’s likeness in one of the master masons here.

14. St Leonard’s Church, Middleton

A few miles south of Rochdale proper, but still in the borough, Middleton’s parish church is also a Grade I monument and merits a closer look.

Most of St Leonard’s is from the 1520s, with a few earlier remnants like the south arcade, south porch and tower from the 1410s, and the priest’s door dating back a century before that.

The church was completed in a Perpendicular Gothic style by Sir Richard Assheton as thanks for the knighthood he received for his role in the Battle of Flodden in 1513. Make sure to see the Flodden Window in the sanctuary, thought to be the UK’s oldest war memorial.

St Leonard’s also has a tremendous array of monumental brasses from the 1500s and 1600s, among which is the only brass depicting a Civil War officer in full armour.

15. East Lancashire Railway

Heywood in Rochdale is a terminus for a 12-mile heritage railway extending north to Rawtenstall in Lancashire.

The East Lancashire Railway was established in 1846 and was eventually absorbed by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1859. This was closed to passenger services in 1972 and restoration has been ongoing since 1986. As of 2019 there are seven stops on the line, with a new halt opened at Burrs Country Park.

It’s as if the South Pennine landscape, littered with Victorian townscapes and cotton mills, was made to be traversed by steam locomotive.

For the younger generation the line is a way to sample the sights, smells and sounds of a forgotten era.

The timetable is busiest between April and September, when there are services from Wednesday to Sunday.

The line has a calendar of special events, like an Ale Trail, 1940s Weekend, Ghost Trains at Halloween and a regular “Wizard Academy” with a nod to Harry Potter.

15 Best Things to Do in Rochdale (Greater Manchester, England):

• Rochdale Town Hall
• Hollingworth Lake
• Touchstones
• Rochdale Canal
• Healey Dell Nature Reserve
• Healey Dell Heritage Centre and Tea Rooms
• Tandle Hill Country Park
• Greenbooth Reservoir
• Rochdale Pioneers Museum
• Ellenroad Engine House
• Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum
• Queen's Park, Heywood
• St Edmund's Church
• St Leonard's Church, Middleton
• East Lancashire Railway

Police shut road outside Greater Manchester hospital amid flooding chaos

Footage shared on social media appears to show a large amount of water gushing down the road outside royal oldham hospital.

• 09:02, 22 AUG 2024
• Updated 11:52, 22 AUG 2024

A major road in Oldham has been closed by police after a water main burst.

Footage shared on social media appears to show a deluge of water gushing down Rochdale Road, outside Royal Oldham Hospital, this morning (Thursday). The road has reportedly been closed from Sheepfoot Lane to Featherstall Road North.

Police officers are on scene and directing traffic in the area. Engineers are also on site carrying out repairs, according to United Utilities.

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Services at the hospital have not been affected, but visitors have been urged to "allow extra time" for journeys.

Nick Burton, the owner of Burtons sandwich shop in Rochdale Road, said: "They have shut the road from Sheepfoot Lane and they are directing traffic down by the football ground.

"A drain has gone outside the hospital and water is gushing down the road. The front of the hospital is completely shut."

In a post on X - formerly Twitter - Oldham Care Organisation wrote: "If you are travelling to The Royal Oldham Hospital today for an appointment or to visit friends/relatives, please allow extra time for your journey. We are currently experiencing delays on Rochdale Road directly outside the hospital due to a burst water main.

"All hospital services & the water supply to the hospital remain unaffected, so please attend your appointment as planned but allow extra time to arrive on site due to the road closures. If you arrive late for your appointment, we will endeavour to see all patients affected."

A United Utilities spokesperson said: “Our engineers are on site assessing the burst water main and planning the next steps to isolate the pipe and carry out repairs.

"We are also making changes to the local water supply network to minimise the number of customers who may be affected by low water pressure or no water. We are doing everything we can to minimise disruption and we thank people for their patience while we get on with the repairs.”

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