page_title: Failsworth
section_title: Transport
hierarchical_section_title: Failsworth / Transport
caption_attribution_description: The M60 motorway, at Cutler Hill in Failsworth, Greater Manchester, England. This was taken looking towards Woodhouses.
context_page_description: Failsworth, a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, lies 3.7 miles north-east of Manchester city centre and 2.9 miles south-west of Oldham. The orbital M60 motorway skirts it to the east. The population at the 2011 census was 20,680. Historically part of Lancashire, Failsworth until the 19th century was a farming township linked ecclesiastically with Manchester. Locals upped their farming income with domestic hand-loom weaving. The ideal humid climate, availability of labour and coal led to mass manufacturing in textiles, as a Lancashire Mill Town.
  A central landmark is the Failsworth Pole. Daisy Nook is a public country park along the southern boundary with Droylsden.
context_section_description: Failsworth's main thoroughfare is Oldham Road (A62) between Manchester and Oldham. The M60 is an orbital motorway circling Greater Manchester, with access via Junction 22. Its completion around 1995–2000 saw the installation of a graded junction and other notable changes to the A62. It led to several rows of buildings around the junction being demolished.
  There are frequent buses through Failsworth between Manchester city centre and Oldham on First Greater Manchester's 83 overground service. There is also a frequent service to Manchester city centre and to Huddersfield/Saddleworth via Oldham, with services 180 and 184. Other bus destinations from Failsworth are Ashton-under-Lyne, Chadderton, Huddersfield, Rochdale, Royton, Saddleworth, Shaw & Crompton and Trafford Centre.
  Failsworth tram stop in Hardman Lane is on the Oldham & Rochdale line of the Manchester Metrolink. At peak times, trams run every 6 minutes south towards East Didsbury via central Manchester and north to Shaw & Crompton or Rochdale via Oldham. At off-peak times, trams run every 12 minutes to East Didsbury and Rochdale. Previously this was an unmanned rail station on the Oldham Loop line serviced by Northern Rail services to Manchester Victoria or Rochdale via Oldham. It closed in October 2009 under Phase 3a of Metrolink extension and re-opened as a tram stop in 2012.
caption: The M60 motorway from Cutler Hill, Failsworth
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