Transport and Logistics Network
Dramatic drone images have shown the moment a car became engulfed by flames after a major collision on the M61[1] on Sunday (October 6).
Emergency services, including police, paramedics and fire crews, raced to the blaze on the northbound carriageway n…
It’s not often that an otherwise humble hook loader can be argued as being a thing of beauty. Still, Lavelle Waste Services of Farnworth, Bolton, has just commissioned a full-spec HARSH-bodied example that’s a real eye-popper!
“We work in a challenging…
A man was seriously injured after his car was left completely crushed in a horror collision with a HGV in Wigan on Thursday night (August 22).
Police, paramedics and fire crews raced to the scene of the incident on Fourmarts Road shortly before midnigh…
On the morning of August 2, 2003 there was a knock on Andrew Malkinson’s door. It was the police. They told him he matched the description of a man who had brutally attacked and raped a young mother-of-two on a motorway embankment in Little Hulton.
The…
The Recovery Room on Prince Street in Bolton was cordoned off at around 2pm today[1] (Wednesday) as four fire engines put out the blaze.
Fire crews from Bolton and Farnworth[2] and one ambulance was in attendance.
A spokesperson for Greater Manchester…
Amid the mansions in one of Greater Manchester’s leafiest suburbs sits a row of pristine white cottages with a little-known history.
The picturesque properties that make up The Crescent, in Worsley, were once home to the workers who kickstarted the Ind…
Junction of Waters Meeting Road and Blackburn Road (Image: Google Maps)A woman has been taken to hospital following a crash involving three cars on a main road in Astley Bridge yesterday evening, December 30.Greater Manchester Police, fire crews and th…
New ONS statistics on train station usage[1] have been released. The stats show passenger entries, exits and interchanges for every station in the country from April 2022 to March 2023.
Compared to the same stats from April 2021 to March 2022, most of…
The M61 southbound was closed between junction 5 and 4 at just after 9pm on the evening of Thursday September 26 as emergency services arrived on the scene.
They were called to assist someone in need of “rescue” on St Helens Road.
A Greater Manchester …
Part of the M61[1] motorway through Bolton[2] has been closed due to an ‘ongoing police incident’. The southbound carriageway between junctions four for Farnworth and junction five for Westhoughton has been shut.
Diversions have been put in place, but …