Diamond Bus North West

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RE: Diamond Bus North West

(23/09/2020 21:44)Mayneway Wrote:  Yes they have invested (or leased) a load of basic spec deckers that happen to be allocated mainly to the 163, as it happens to compete on Rochdale road, but look between the cracks and you still see plenty of scruffy unkept buses with failed destination blinds and bits of paper stuck in the windows.
Everyone always comments on Bolton but what about Eccles. Most of the Solos there are past there best and look scruffy, several buses still knocking about in Preston bus livery and from what I’ve seen and been told today they have lost some more work come October.

As for drivers, one of my colleagues who’s worked all over the ok with Meridian agency reckons they are currently supplying Bolton depot with agency drivers and the contract they have signed suggests they will be supplying a lot more!

I wonder how many of the Eccles routes could be run by Bolton should Diamond give up on Eccles