A few contract wins/holds for Arriva. Laird Street seem to be doing well with gaining the 110 and 174/5 and it appears they have held the 118/9 - certainly bucking the trend across the Merseyside group.
Another two confirmed now, both routes 135 and 235 are to be operated by Cumfybus, 235 commercially along with the odd 135, but most 135s (as they are evenings/Sundays) are still a Merseytravel contract but awarded to Cumfybus, ex HTL Buses.
Latest changes include confirmation that HTL will continue to run the evening 141 (and as they interwork the 36 too) in St Helens, meanwhile an additional late 500 (LJLA - Liverpool ONE) is now operated by Stagecoach as as Merseytravel contact due to Arriva withdrawing the late evening commercial 500.
Just a few contracts remain unconfirmed but are likely to remain with the current operators.
OCTOBER CHANGES
WIRRAL
110 - Arriva
117 - Arriva
118/119 - Arriva
145/146 - A2B Travel
174/175 - Arriva
213 - Impera
218/219 - Arriva
901 - Cumfybus
SOUTHPORT
160/161/162/163/164 - Ace Travel
ST HELENS
36 - HTL Buses
141 (Evening/Sundays) - HTL Buses
152/714 - HTL Buses
156 - HTL Buses
602 - HTL Buses
LIVERPOOL
56A (Sat AM replacing 156) - Arriva
119 - Ace Travel
133 - Cumfybus (Commercialised)
135 - Cumfybus (Commercialised)
235 - Cumfybus
146/245/246/247 - HTL Buses
155 - Arriva
162 (Sun AM) - Cumfybus
192 (M-F AM) - Arriva
201 - Ace Travel
209/259 - HTL Buses
231/232/233 - Cumfybus
(Morning/Evening Peak M-F 231s replaced by Ace Travel commercial route 5, 234 replaced by Ace Travel commercial route 4)
500 (Single Late Evening) - Stagecoach
827 - HTL Buses
835 - Maghull Coaches
870 - HTL Buses
883 - HTL Buses
897 - HTL Buses
898 - HTL Buses
899 - HTL Buses
UPDATED 20/09/2012
Aren't the Wirral 8xx routes due up?
Not that I'm aware of, they weren't in Mr T's original list and no timetable/VOSA info has been online for them so if they were up it would look like Cumfybus have retained them but I'm not sure they were.
First Class
8** series i believe are now up in April instead of October for some reason with A2B 145/146
(20/09/2012 18:23)P450 SWX Wrote: [ -> ]First Class
8** series i believe are now up in April instead of October for some reason with A2B 145/146
Thanks muchly
