Hyde Road Bus Garage Manchester

Of the former seven Manchester Corporation bus garages I remember from my teens only two remain in use, Queens Road with First Bus and the extensive site at Hyde Road now occupied by Stagecoach which includes a vast open space at the rear once offering mouthwatering glimpses of rows of withdrawn buses and trolleybuses. Not far from Piccadilly Station the trains into Manchester often slowed here but just as they were about to grind to a half off they would trundle again before one had even written down a single number. Of course it's many years since I last spotted buses but I'm sure here at least some things never change.