Christmas & New Year Services 2017/18

[motormayhem1]

RE: Christmas & New Year Services 2017/18

(06/12/2017 12:16)buses7675 Wrote:  The Christmas Day 194X/195X route isn't quite the same as the normal 194/195, it doesn't do the part up City Road/Bishop Road going by the route descriptions for the previous two years.

Hopefully 195X will have its regular driver for third consecutive year this time lol

Will that be santas little helper again lol

[wimdebusse]

RE: Christmas & New Year Services 2017/18

(06/12/2017 08:09)MTL0201 Wrote:  Merseyrail did operate on Boxing Day last year.

Although a half hourly service is opertard it only stops at a few stations, so the 47 filling in the void ?

[buses7675 (Website Founder)]

RE: Christmas & New Year Services 2017/18

(06/12/2017 13:13)motormayhem1 Wrote:  Will that be santas little helper again lol

All I want for Christmas is YZU....


Solo 47711 MX54YZU that is lol

[AlexBus12]

RE: Christmas & New Year Services 2017/18
Tfgm Christmas timetables have appeared on First buses...
Sunday 24th December
Sunday service. Buses will stop running 6pm onwards
Monday 25th December, Christmas Day
Stagecoach will run special daytime buses on service 43.
No other buses will run
Tuesday 26th December
Special buses will run on these servives:
Arriva- 245 and 247
First-8, 17, 36, 37, 68, 81, 93, 98, 100, 135, 163, 184, 409, 471 and 582
Stagecoach- 23, 42, 43, 50, 76, 85, 86, 101, 118, 192, 201, 203, 204, 216, 219, 250, 256, 330 and X50
Special buses will also run between Manchester City and Old Trafford for the Manchester United v Burnley match.
Diamond- 126, 132 and 300
Transdev- X41, X43 and Cityzap
EasyBus will run a normal service.
No other buses will run
Wednesday 27th, Thursday 28th and Friday 29th December
Buses will run a normal or modified weekday service or Saturday service with some additional early morning buses on some routes. PMH Motors will not run
Saturday 30th December
Normal Saturday service.
PMH Motors will not run.
Sunday 31st December, New Years Eve
Buses will run a normal Sunday service. Most buses will stop running from 6pm onwards.
Stagecoach- 42, 43, 86, 192, 201 and 219 will run until approximately 4am on the morning of New Years Day
Monday 1st January 2018, New Years Day
Special daytime buses will run on these services:
Stagecoach- 42, 43, 86, 101, 192, 201, 203, 219 and 250.
EasyBus will run a normal service.
No other buses will run.
Tuesday 2nd January to Friday 5th January
Normal service except a modified weekday timetable will run on some Stagecoach routes.
Saturday 6th January Onwards
Normal service.
Metroshuttle
Buses will run everyday except Christmas Day. Services on 1, 2 and 3 will run a Sunday timetable on Boxing Day and New Years Day
All Metroshuttle routes will run normally on other days

[St Helens Rider]

RE: Christmas & New Year Services 2017/18
Yet again, apart from the 132, nothing in the Wigan area Boxing Day.

[wirralbus]

RE: Christmas & New Year Services 2017/18
Its the case that some areas notably in the former PTE areas do have a very reasonable offering on Boxing Day daytime and other areas notably the Shire Counties have hardly any service at all.

If it wasnt for the operators running the services commercially these days on Boxing day knowing they will still make a profit on them there would be NO service at all as Merseytravel and TfGM are increasingly short of money to fund the services any more .

[Barney]

RE: Christmas & New Year Services 2017/18

(07/12/2017 19:18)wirralbus Wrote:  Its the case that some areas notably in the former PTE areas do have a very reasonable offering on Boxing Day daytime and other areas notably the Shire Counties have hardly any service at all.

If it wasnt for the operators running the services commercially these days on Boxing day knowing they will still make a profit on them there would be NO service at all as Merseytravel and TfGM are increasingly short of money to fund the services any more .

For many years after deregulation the major operators claimed that it was unprofitable to run services over the Christmas period but as soon as the subsidies began to dry up these services became viable. The truth is that if there is public money available for private enterprise it will be gratefully received and accepted.

[Nicholas]

RE: Christmas & New Year Services 2017/18

(07/12/2017 19:18)wirralbus Wrote:  Its the case that some areas notably in the former PTE areas do have a very reasonable offering on Boxing Day daytime and other areas notably the Shire Counties have hardly any service at all.

If it wasnt for the operators running the services commercially these days on Boxing day knowing they will still make a profit on them there would be NO service at all as Merseytravel and TfGM are increasingly short of money to fund the services any more .

Not necessarily - Go South Coast is running a FULL Sunday service (except for the odd tendered route) in Bournemouth/Poole, Southampton and Swindon.

[busesdotorg1920x]

RE: Christmas & New Year Services 2017/18

(07/12/2017 19:18)wirralbus Wrote:  Its the case that some areas notably in the former PTE areas do have a very reasonable offering on Boxing Day daytime and other areas notably the Shire Counties have hardly any service at all.

If it wasnt for the operators running the services commercially these days on Boxing day knowing they will still make a profit on them there would be NO service at all as Merseytravel and TfGM are increasingly short of money to fund the services any more .

Oxfordshire is definately an exception: Stagecoach are running services all throughout the festive period on almost every route (not available online any more, they were available last week) including services on Christmas Day on two services!

[Metroline1511]

RE: Christmas & New Year Services 2017/18
For route 14a to be running every 20 minute to Kirkby on Boxing Day and New Year's Day, this is more frequent than the normal Mon-Sat daytime service!