Subject: First Manchester 40328 (ML02 OFX)
Chassis: Optare Solo M850
Body: Optare B26F
Location: Scouthed, Oldham Road
Date: 1-Feb-2015

With a backdrop of Dobcross village across the valley, Solo 40328 climbs up to the summit at Scouthead. It’s already hard to realise that the lane rising out of frame at the top of the photograph was also a bus route, but the 356 ran that way two days a week from 1999 to 2007.