Stagecoach Manchester

[Brickmill]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester and Wigan

(20/12/2017 22:06)Brickmill Wrote:  There are currently no (diesel) Enviro400s in reserve. 19165-8 were repainted into corporate livery (ex MagicBus) and transferred to the main fleet at HE some months ago. The Euro3 Enviro400s are being nomadic, with some moves listed on FleetCards yet to happen. Similarly, I think 19355 is due to move from HE to ST.
What is confusing is the Enviro200 situation. The October service changes seem to have made 5 buses redundant (at ST), but whilst 5 x 59 reg have officially gone in reserve (on top of 5 transferred out; 36096-9/107), 3x 11 regs have also gone in reserve, despite 8x 59 regs remaining in service!

Just had an e-mail reminding me that there seem to be more questions about the status of the fleet than for many years. There are many MANs that have still not left Wigan (and HE) despite being sold to PVS many months ago. There are now reports of ex Bluebird Enviro 300s 27598-600 supposedly transferring to Scotland in November, but at least 27598 was seen in service at the end of that month. That's on top of the Enviro200 queries above, on/off reallocations of early Enviro400s, Primos & B7RLEs that have been "sold" and not gone and ...Tridents 17612, 18148 & 18290.