Stagecoach MCSL - Preston Depot

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RE: Stagecoach MCSL - Preston Depot

(12/11/2018 23:14)St Helens Rider Wrote:  And there endth Wigan's last bus (if rather long) link with any city in the relative surrounding area.

Strictly speaking, Boothstown (served by the 132) is part of the City of Salford. (Though I appreciate that it doesn't go to the city centre.)

Though it's interesting enough as an item of trivia, I don't think the lack of bus services to cities reflects negatively upon Wigan. If anything, it says that it's a significant enough place in its own right not to need a bus "into the city". And it does have decent direct rail links to plenty of major cities.

City status is somewhat arbitrary in any case - Preston only became one less than 20 years ago, and Bolton was also among the candidates at the same time, so one could argue that Wigan's lack of city bus links is purely down to the whims of the Queen

(Incidentally, and completely off-topic, I'm sure that there was a British Rail Class 86 electric locomotive named "City of Milton Keynes", and yet apparently it isn't one, nor ever has been.)