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RE: Go Goodwins

(09/02/2021 06:59)M60lad Wrote:  Regarding the 88 announcement just to clear things up the way things are at the moment and have been for a while according to both 88 and 288 timetables there are no late or even Sunday workings on either routes, the late workings on 88/288 which interworked with each other were actually dropped as 88 especially wasn't picking up between Altrincham & Wilmslow and you could do the full route in the evening at times without picking a soul up.

If you look at the 88 loadings on the Knutsford-Wilmslow-Altrincham service there's more people travelling into Wilmslow from the Chorley direction, than the Morley Green direction. Yet the evening and Sunday service didn't go beyond Wilmslow station, it also wasn't well advertised. The 288 was reduced to 2 hourly in the evenings and on Sundays because it wasn't that well used and then it didn't make sense to have a bus sat at Altrincham doing nothing for an hour.

According to a post on another forum Chris Almond from D&G has said they are continuing to run the 88 timetable with the exception of the short journeys which haven't operated since last April, which are the ones Go Goodwins are taking on. I can't see the weekday evening return working between Wilmslow and Altrincham being well used, even with better publicity considering D&G Returns and Weeklies won't be valid on it and pass holders probably won't be out at that kind of time.