Stagecoach Manchester

[Mrboo]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester and Wigan

(09/09/2019 01:57)Mayneway Wrote:  Go north east don’t seem to struggle with route branded buses on the wrong routes neither do Trent Barton so why do stagecoach make such a hash of it?

They do the Villager at Trent sometimes need to lend other branded buses. The reason you keep your branded buses on the planned route as you have X branded and X Spare non Branded but it does come down to how the routes work as First often had 409 buses on Manchester routes and 59 on the 409

a good video that was going around by Nottingham https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6DD2qK1sAs as you can see trying to keep branded buses on right route is a job the depot staff have a battle as they need to park buses at night in set order to get them out in service next day in order.

But Stagecoach uses there Magic buses in Summer as spare so they can do there MOT`s and other work on their standard fleet as they would have a number of buses parked up.

I work a lot with First West Special event team they use there Uni buses from Bristol and Bath they do Rail replacement and events with a there fleet at weekends and in Summer and their team of drivers often stay away from home. If Stagecoach was smart they would use them buses on Rail replacement and events all over the UK but even last year they did not use them at Derby when Arriva lend buses from Luton as they needed buses for burton to Derby. Stagecoach had Chesterfield to Derby and had any megabus or stagecoach express coach on it but could of done the Burton in my view. as it was a Stagecoach rail replacement