(22/10/2012 21:07)ace Wrote: [ -> ] (22/10/2012 19:01)gilbert Wrote: [ -> ] (22/10/2012 05:16)ace Wrote: [ -> ]Well if rumours are to be believed I think the X reg and older MAN's are due to leave when the hybrids for the 192 arrive, so we might not have much longer to put up with them. 
Where will they all go? There doesn't appear to be any sign of the remaining 'S' and 'T' 's going yet.Surely they will go before the 'X''s even though some of the former run just as well if not better than some of the latter.
I've no idea, but with 40 buses arriving something has to give. It's long been on the cards that some routes could go D/D on their arrival.
Which routes would they be?
Just had a nosey on google maps in my spare time and found Scania 15453 in Piccadilly Gardens
Here on Google Maps.
Belongs down at Stagecoach Midlands now
(22/10/2012 23:05)gilbert Wrote: [ -> ] (22/10/2012 21:07)ace Wrote: [ -> ] (22/10/2012 19:01)gilbert Wrote: [ -> ]Where will they all go? There doesn't appear to be any sign of the remaining 'S' and 'T' 's going yet.Surely they will go before the 'X''s even though some of the former run just as well if not better than some of the latter.
I've no idea, but with 40 buses arriving something has to give. It's long been on the cards that some routes could go D/D on their arrival.
Which routes would they be?
I don't think they've all been decided yet, but 15 has already gone D/D, there's been quite a lot of talk about 347, and I think maybe any combination from 7, 22, 23/23A, 42A, 313, 314, 317, 322, 325, 346, 358, 368, 369, 370, 374, 378, and 383/384.
(23/10/2012 14:12)Benzo Wrote: [ -> ]Just had a nosey on google maps in my spare time and found Scania 15453 in Piccadilly Gardens Here on Google Maps.
Belongs down at Stagecoach Midlands now
Yes that one didn't stay very long in Manchester. Scanias aren't very common in Manchester really, I think mainly because they don't fit the Stagecoach route policy in Manchester so they don't employ mechanics with the knowledge to service them.
(23/10/2012 22:35)gilbert Wrote: [ -> ] (23/10/2012 21:35)ace Wrote: [ -> ] (22/10/2012 23:05)gilbert Wrote: [ -> ]Which routes would they be?
I don't think they've all been decided yet, but 15 has already gone D/D, there's been quite a lot of talk about 347, and I think maybe any combination from 7, 22, 23/23A, 42A, 313, 314, 317, 322, 325, 346, 358, 368, 369, 370, 374, 378, and 383/384.
Hedging your bets then?
lol, yes I suppose so. I was just going by the routes that had always been mainly single deck that I'd seen on D/D recently, so I guess they are all being tried out for their suitability and all will be revealed in due course
22102 was operating on the 330 this afternoon.
(26/10/2012 21:26)gilbert Wrote: [ -> ]22102 was operating on the 330 this afternoon.
So presumably it has now moved to Ashton. Have all the S reg's gone to Ashton now then? The 171 seems to be all T reg's these days.
(26/10/2012 21:29)ace Wrote: [ -> ] (26/10/2012 21:26)gilbert Wrote: [ -> ]22102 was operating on the 330 this afternoon.
So presumably it has now moved to Ashton. Have all the S reg's gone to Ashton now then? The 171 seems to be all T reg's these days.
It was down as being in reserve on the last fleet card that I saw. I was walking near Toys 'R' Us on the main road into the centre of Stockport when I saw it coming towards me. Unfortunately I wasn't near enough to the bus stop to hitch a ride.
I thought all the S Reg MANs had gone from AZ too, over the last few days the only MANs I've noticed in Ashton were T reg except for the 2 ST examples.