Stagecoach Manchester

[Mayneway]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester and Wigan

(12/03/2017 15:00)Dentonian Wrote:  My experiences of Easter 2006 were mainly as a straightforward commuter, so I mainly witnessed (and was caught up in) events between 1655 & 1735ish. I can't therefore comment more generally, other than to point out that the 211 had been replaced by 201 many years earlier, and of course, the 347 doesn't run anywhere near Manchester. I recall three distinct incidents:
1. Two UKN employees staging a (mock?) wrestle on the ground like a pair of drugged up yobs, in front of 100+ bemused commuters waiting for a bus - any bus - going up Hyde Road.
2. Being ushered with about 70 other passengers aboard the 1720, 204, whilst it parked right across the Newton Street/Piccadilly junction, by a Stagecoach inspector barking as though it was the 204 passengers' fault that UKN had decided to run 192s!!! The bus then left at 1716.
3. Running (again with dozens of others) all the way from EO stand to what is now EQ stand to board another 204 (the 1740?), because EO stand was totally blocked by 192s of both Operators.

I'm well aware that the 211 and 347 shouldn't run from the stand you mention, the point I was making was stagecoach drivers were clearly told at the time to throw up any number service apart from 192 to get onto stand quicker and obviously not get spotted by officials who were at the time out in force after the huge medîa interest in said bus wars.
I have several photos somewhere of a row of mainly n/c Scania's queing to get onto the stand displaying the rouge numbers.