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Major road closure – Diggle. Update now 26th April 2021 for up to 26 weeks and not 19th April (Preparatory works for the new Saddleworth School)
by Garth Harkness on 16 April, 2021
With effect from Monday 26th April Huddersfield Road, through Diggle Village will be closed to northbound traffic between the Standedge Road junction and Ward Lane.
The closure will affect the following bus services:
General Bus Services
184 (Oldham – Uppermill – Diggle – Huddersfield) – diverted via Standedge Road, omitting Diggle Village.
184 (Huddersfield – Uppermill – Diggle – Oldham) – UNCHANGED. Journeys towards Oldham will continue to operate as normal through Diggle Village
356 (Oldham – Diggle – Uppermill – Ashton) – will be unable to serve Diggle Village (Huddersfield Road, Sunfield Lane, Dorset Avenue)
356 (Ashton – Uppermill – Diggle – Oldham) – will be unable to serve Diggle Village (Huddersfield Road, Sunfield Lane, Dorset Avenue)
School Bus Services
558 (Diggle – Uppermill – Bluecoat School) – UNCHANGED. Journey will operate as normal.
823 (Bluecoat School – Denshaw – Diggle) – TBC. (all children will be dropped at their normal stops but we are finalising routing details with the operator).
Oldham MBC will fund a free shuttle bus, which will maintain links from Uppermill to Diggle, and from Sunfield Lane and Dorset Drive to Uppermill. The buses used will be large minibuses with reduced seat availability to aid social distancing.
Passengers who would normally use service 184 to travel from Diggle to Uppermill and Oldham should continue to do so as normal during the closure.
The shuttle bus, which is timed to offer connections with services 184 and 356, will operate as follows:
| FROM Uppermill Turning Circle via High Street, Wool Road, Standedge Road, Huddersfield Road, | |
| Sunfield Lane, Dorset Avenue, Huddersfield, Road, Wool Road, High Street to Uppermill Turning Circle. |
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