Passengers desperately trying to make their flights at Manchester Airport found themselves stranded on the motorway after a bus broke down on Sunday (August 10).

The 'dilapidated' rail replacement bus service, from Huddersfield to Manchester Airport , suffered a fault on the M60 at around 4pm.

The replacement bus services are currently running on weekends between Huddersfield and Manchester due to the Transpennine Route Upgrade; a major programme of railway improvements traveling across the Pennines between Manchester, Huddersfield, Leeds and York.

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One person on board, who was anxiously trying to make a work-related flight to Geneva, said it took around an hour before a secondary

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