(17/03/2019 15:39)SF07 Wrote: [ -> ]Fare changes in Lancashire from 7 April.
Chorley and Preston zone tickets will be merged into new Central Lancs zone ticket, valid on services in Chorley and PrestonCiti zones plus whole routes of services 24A, 59, 113 and 125. Means a 40% reduction in day ticket price for people travelling from Bolton or Wigan to Preston (£4.90 compared to current £8 Lancashire dayrider ticket)
https://www.stagecoachbus.com/service-up...:13:37:784
Wigan is included in the Preston Mega ticket which is £4.70 at the moment so it's a 20p increase from that. Anyone who does the 125/109 weekly ticket gets a nice little £2 reduction.
It's good to see them reducing the number of zones which will save on confusion a bit.. Shame about some of the prices going up but it's one of them things.
It's 10. Dedicated batch of Scania/ Enviro400 MMCs bought Autumn 17- 15295 to 15305.
15294 to 15304 are branded but 15305 is not. They do interwork with the 59 Preston to Blackburn at some times of the day.
(28/03/2019 20:56)B10B6514 Wrote: [ -> ]It's 10. Dedicated batch of Scania/ Enviro400 MMCs bought Autumn 17- 15295 to 15305.
15294 to 15304 are branded but 15305 is not. They do interwork with the 59 Preston to Blackburn at some times of the day.
Does that explain why 1 or 2 standard Enviro400s are a common sight on there these days?
In theory the 10 should be adequate. The 59 is linked with the 61 for allocation purposes according to the fleetcard on mbonwick's website. Older Enviro400s will appear for operational or engineering purposes. For example, late running, maintenance or breakdowns etc. Also every working leaves Preston bus station on time, therefore if the bus due for say a 1630 departure, has not returned back to Preston from its' previous journey then another vehicle will substitute it I'm led to believe.
There is a photo floating around on Twitter of an Enviro400 in Ribble privatisation livery - if one can work out how to copy here, will edit this post later.
Looks pretty smart!
*EDIT* It is based at Lancaster, rather than Preston (wrong thread, apologies)
(13/04/2019 10:09)SandyDrew Wrote: [ -> ]There is a photo floating around on Twitter of an Enviro400 in Ribble privatisation livery - if one can work out how to copy here, will edit this post later.
Looks pretty smart!
*EDIT* It is based at Lancaster, rather than Preston (wrong thread, apologies)
Just found it....looks fantastic
https://twitter.com/StephieBarber/status...3225515008
HTH
Its actually not with this subsidiary though, its with North Lancs & Cumbria, are Merseyside & South Lancs doing one? as both Preston and Gillmoss depots have routes in the former Ribble area, as well as Chorley outstation? also Cumbria and North Lancs opps at Carlisle and Kendal were also in Ribble operating area, so anything further due there?
Then there's Transdev, any plans there?
(15/04/2019 14:11)gilesbus1 Wrote: [ -> ]Its actually not with this subsidiary though, its with North Lancs & Cumbria, are Merseyside & South Lancs doing one?
Gillmoss does share the QBP route 53 between Liverpool and Crosby with Arriva which is in essence the former Ribble L3 service. The word on the street is that Arriva Bootle depot is about to receive a decker in Ribble livery so it would be interesting to compare to the two paint jobs.