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Changes to the Chorley services in October 2015, with confirmation that the 125 will become a Stagecoach Gold service in November.

From Stagecoach website:

Quote:Stagecoach is making a number of wide ranging changes to services within Chorley and also between Chorley, Leyland and Preston from 18th October 2015.

Among the changes are significant improvements to the number of buses we run between Buckshaw, Leyland and Preston, much better coverage of Buckshaw Village and new links from the Eaves Lane and Astley Village areas of Chorley to Preston and Leyland. Some of our Chorley local buses will also be reinstated to run into town via Market Street.

Details are as follows:

1, 1B, 2, 2A Chorley Hospital - Chorley - Coppull
will be replaced by...
6 Chorley - Pall Mall - Eaves Green - Coppull
7 Chorley - Walgarth Drive - Collingwood Road - Charnock Richard - Eccleston - Croston
109 Chorley - Tesco - Euxton - Buckshaw - Leyland - Preston
109A Chorley - Brooke Street - Eaves Lane - Harpers Lane - Chorley & South Ribble Hospital - Astley Village - Buckshaw - Leyland - Preston
Services 1, 1B, 2 & 2A will be replaced by the above revised and new services.

Service 6 will operate between Chorley Interchange, Pall Mall, Eaves Green Road and then will take in one large loop of Coppull starting at Clancutt Lane roundabout and then running via Chapel Lane, Lancaster Street, Milton Road estate, Tansley Avenue loop, then back into town via Chapel Street and Park Road, Spendmore Lane, New Lane, Eaves Green Road and Pall Mall. Following requests, buses will operate into town via Market Street and St. George's Street. This service will operate once per hour, Monday to Saturday daytimes.

Service 7 will operate between Chorley Interchange, Union Street, St. Thomas's Road, Devonshire Road, Walgarth Drive, Collingwood Road, Tootell Street, Moor Road, then the existing route between Charnock Richard and Croston. There will be a revised timetable, but this service will still operate once per hour, Monday to Saturday daytimes.

3 Chorley - Harrison Road - Weld Bank - Heath Charnock - Adlington - Lower Adlington will be re-numbered to service 8
This service will continue to operate the same route, but there will be a revised timetable, still operating once per hour, Monday to Saturday daytimes. Following requests, buses will operate into town via Market Street and St. George's Street.

3A Blackrod - Adlington - Limbrick - Chorley, market day shoppers bus will be re-numbered to service 8A.
Other than the re-numbering, there are no changes to the route or timetable.

7 Chorley - Collingwood Road - Charnock Richard - Eccleston - Croston
As mentioned above, this service will now operate from Chorley town centre to Charnock Richard via the Walgarth Drive and Collingwood Road areas, replacing part of service 1. There will be a revised timetable, but this service will still operate once per hour, Monday to Saturday daytimes.

24A Chorley - Blackburn (evenings and Sundays)
This LCC service will revert to follow the main daytime route in Chorley, operating from the Interchange via Union Street, Park Road, Harpers Lane, Great Knowley and onwards to Blackburn.
Evening and Sunday buses between Chorley, Brooke Street, Eaves Lane, Chorley & South Ribble Hospital and Astley Village will be provided by an hourly frequency on new service 109A (detailed below).

109 Chorley - Euxton - Buckshaw - Leyland - Preston and
NEW service 109A Chorley - Brooke Street - Eaves Lane - Harpers Lane - Chorley & South Ribble Hospital - Astley Village - Buckshaw - Leyland - Preston
We are pleased to announce big improvements to our services between Chorley and Preston via Buckshaw and Leyland! Together, services 109 and 109A will provide a 15 minute frequency between Preston and Buckshaw, Monday to Saturday daytimes.

Each route will operate every 30 minutes and will run the same route between Preston and the top of Central Avenue at Buckshaw. From here, the routes will split. Service 109 will continue to operate the existing route via Euxton and Southport Road into Chorley, with the addition that buses will also operate into the Tesco store car park, replacing the facility previously provided by a combination of services 1B, 2 & 2A.

Service 109A will provide much improved coverage of the expanding Buckshaw Village development, operating from the top of Central Avenue, via Old Worden Avenue, The Hub, Tesco, Buckshaw Parkway Rail Station, Euxton Lane, Astley Village, Chorley & South Ribble Hospital grounds, Harpers Lane, Eaves Lane, Brook Street and Chorley Interchange.

This provides new links from the Eaves Lane area and Astley Village direct to both Leyland and Preston! In Astley Village, buses will always operate an anti-clockwise loop, running northbounds up Chancery Road for customers wanting either the Preston or Chorley bound buses. The direction of travel will clearly be shown on the front of the bus.

Buses will operate every 30 minutes Monday to Saturday daytimes between Preston and Chorley and every hour in the evenings and Sundays between Chorley and Astley Village only.
Service 109 will continue to provide the hourly evening and Sunday service between Chorley and Preston via Leyland.

125 Preston - Chorley - Bolton
There will be some relatively minor timetable changes to improve reliability on either certain specific journeys, or at particular times of day where we know a few tweaks will allow us to run more punctually. Due to customer requests, there will be a new early bus from Preston to Chorley at 0525 hrs via Walton Summit to cater for shift workers starting at 6am in Walton Summit, Monday to Fridays.
Look out for our exiting new Stagecoach Gold buses, coming to service 125 in November, offering luxury new interiors with leather coach seats and free Wifi!

https://www.stagecoachbus.com/tis-servic...px?id=6661

Does anyone know which depot is operating 113s at the moment only I saw what I thought was one of Preston Depot's Optare Solo SR's on there today along with a Dart and a conventional Solo

18156 (PX04 DPV) TransBus Trident/ALX400 decker has been put on route X2 today. Still got its green dot-matrix destination displays.

Problem is, its still in the all-red Ribble Enthusiasts Club livery (with beige mid-stripe), and there's no indication of it being a Stagecoach vehicle. With its 1960s heritage look and RIBBLE lettering, I wonder if non-enthusiasts will know that its a genuine Stagecoach X2 as they're used to the usual 15466-15474 Scania deckers in standard corporate livery?

That's the problem putting buses into replica liveries that sometimes you would have no idea who really operates the bus , some decide to leave the very front of the bus in fleet livery to distinguish the real operator of the bus , but that may detract from the livery then .

(19/09/2015 15:16)wirralbus Wrote: [ -> ]That's the problem putting buses into replica liveries that sometimes you would have no idea who really operates the bus , some decide to leave the very front of the bus in fleet livery to distinguish the real operator of the bus , but that may detract from the livery then .

Exactly!
There could be a lot of confused passengers along the X2 route today.

What a load of twaddle.

I honestly doubt people pay all that much attention to what colour bus turns up - all they care about is that a bus turns up, at the stated time, going to the stated destination.

18156 has been in Ribble colours for over a year and its not been a problem in all that time! So why is the X2 "special"? It's not even as though the branded Scanias are that dedicated to the route either...

Aren't these special liveried vehicles done for a special occasion , what was the reason for this particular Ribble liveried vehicle .

(19/09/2015 16:16)Dentonian Wrote: [ -> ]I would tend to disagree. Whilst it has been in Ribble colours for some time, it has (presumably) spent most of that time on Schools services or the frequent 125, and will have been a very familiar site to the bus users of Chorley and 10 miles NW & SE - as was the "Ribble" Olympian before it. Why is the X2 special? Perhaps the "X" gives a bit of a clue. It is a fast but infrequent service, so if anyone misses it because they are so used to a corporate liveried bus, they either wait a long time for the next one or, if only travelling a shorter distance, make do with the slower service.

As for heritage replica liveries in general. That's probably a subject in its own right, especially as Stagecoach are not the only operator in the region to do it.

In the years immediately after deregulation such things were very fluid. Passengers became accustomed to a whole range of liveries and vehicles. In fact, it was not unusual to get on a bus in the morning only to find that by tea time the route had been altered, the company wound up and the livery of the new operator at the opposite end of the spectrum. Come on, the first thing that any potential passenger looks for is the route number and destination. If they are displayed correctly, the rest is immaterial unless of course you wear an anorak.

Passengers dont look at the colour of the bus. In fact the majority dont even read the destination. Believe it or not, ive actually had someone attempt to board a training bus, in training livery, L plates on, Driver Under Instruction plastered all over it, seats missing, tables on, no cab door or wall... the list could go on. If its going in the direction they want, they will just jump on it. If you use the 19 in Liverpool of an evening, get on one to Gillmoss or Willow Way and you will be amazed at the amount of people kicking off because it doesnt go to Kirkby, even though the destination is clearly displayed on the front.

(19/09/2015 17:05)Dentonian Wrote: [ -> ]Can't agree with this either. I think it was very rare for a service to change operator in the middle of the day. For one thing, if a company collapsed without warning it would be virtually impossible to have a relacement service by the evening, anyway. Probably more to the point, different Operators charge different fares and have different ticketing validities, so at the very least a waiting passenger might have a split second's doubt that the Day/Megarider in their hand, would be valid on this different coloured bus.

Oh, FFS, I was taking the p***. You really do need to lighten up. I quit.