Eccles Chauffeur Service Across Salford and the Ship Canal Corridor
Eccles sits three miles west of Salford and four miles west of Manchester city centre, on sloping ground between the M602 to the north and the Manchester Ship Canal to the south. Manner Borne provides a luxury chauffeur service across Eccles and the surrounding Salford districts, covering airport transfers, business travel into the city and MediaCityUK, and the occasion journeys that a town with this much history behind it still generates.
A Town Built by the Railway
Eccles grew up around the thirteenth century parish church of St Mary, and the area was largely agricultural until the Industrial Revolution brought textiles to the town. What changed it permanently was the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the world’s first passenger railway, which ran directly through and drew the town outwards along the line between those two cities.
The town hall on Church Street, built in 1881 in Edwardian Baroque, was the headquarters of Eccles Borough Council until the council was abolished in 1974. It was extended to the rear in 1899 to create a council chamber and courtroom, and it received King George V and Queen Mary in 1913 and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1938. Monks Hall, a Tudor residence with later additions, carries a name that may go back to the monks of Whalley Abbey who owned much of the land here from the 1230s, and it served as a museum from 1961.
The Eccles cake was first made here and named after the town, which remains the thing most people outside Salford know about the place.
The Transport Position for an Eccles Chauffeur Service
Eccles is unusually well connected for a town of its size. The Metrolink line terminates at Eccles Interchange on Regent Street, which opened in July 2000 and sits roughly three hundred metres from the railway station, and the trams run through Salford Quays on their way in. The M602 runs through the town to its terminus in Salford and out the other way to meet the M60 and the M62.
That last point is the practically useful one. A town sitting on the M602 with direct access to the orbital motorway is a good starting point for almost any journey, and the run to Manchester Airport by way of the M60 and M56 is straightforward at most hours. Transfers are arranged through the airport chauffeur service, with inbound flights monitored so a delayed landing does not leave a traveller waiting in arrivals.
The Ship Canal and Barton
The southern boundary of the town is the Manchester Ship Canal, and the Barton Swing Aqueduct, which replaced an earlier stone aqueduct when the canal was cut, remains one of the more remarkable pieces of Victorian engineering in the region. Barton Aerodrome sits to the west, and the whole corridor along the canal has a working character quite different from the residential streets north of it.
For an Eccles chauffeur service the corridor matters because the crossings are limited. A journey that looks short on a map can involve a considerable detour if the obvious bridge is not available, and that is exactly the kind of local judgement that gets built into a collection time rather than discovered on the day. What3Words is used to pin precise collection points where an address sits away from a main road.
Eccles Chauffeur Service for Business Travel and MediaCityUK
The growth of Salford Quays and MediaCityUK has changed the pattern of business travel through Eccles considerably. Visiting production staff, contributors and executives arrive at Manchester Airport and need moving to a specific building on a large development, and the walk from a general drop off point is longer than most visitors expect. A planned arrival with an agreed set down point removes that entirely.
Arrangements for regular corporate travel are set out on the corporate chauffeur service and business chauffeur service pages, and production work specifically is covered by the TV and film chauffeur service.
Rail Connections From the Town
Eccles railway station sits on the line that began as the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, and it carries services towards both cities as well as connections onward. For a good many business journeys the sensible arrangement is rail for the long leg with a chauffeur at either end, which removes the parking question and the motorway crossing together. Station collections are arranged through the train station chauffeur service, with the vehicle waiting on arrival rather than summoned once the train is in.
Choosing the Vehicle
The vehicle follows the requirement. A single executive travelling to a meeting or an early flight suits the composed ride of the Mercedes-Benz E-Class chauffeur, while a production team or a family travelling together with equipment or cases needs the space of the Mercedes-Benz V-Class XLWB. Larger movements are covered across the our luxury fleet range. Every chauffeur is selected and vetted for driving, appearance and courtesy, and each vehicle is presented immaculately.
Across Salford and West Manchester
Eccles sits among a group of districts that generate travel between them as much as into the city, and the same standard applies throughout. Journeys west along the canal corridor are covered by the chauffeur service Irlam, while travel into the city itself is handled by the chauffeur service Manchester. Evening journeys into town for a performance are set out on the theatre and red carpet chauffeur service page.
Arranging an Eccles Chauffeur Service
Whether the requirement is an early departure from the airport, a production arrival at the Quays, or an evening out in the city that ends without a drive home, arrangements are made in advance rather than at short notice. Travel across Eccles, Salford and Greater Manchester is arranged through the Manchester office on 0161 532 4444, while journeys reaching west towards Merseyside can be booked through the Liverpool office on 0151 909 3855. A requirement can also be outlined through the contact us page, with a considered plan to follow rather than a standard quotation. Why just arrive when you can arrive in style.
