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[Mrboo]

RE: Go Goodwins

(19/03/2022 19:46)knutstransport Wrote:  First Student was effectively a private hire scheme based on the model that was working well for them in North America. OK it meant a coach used on a school contract wouldn't also be taking the pensioners to bingo but they were still hired out for school trips and other occasional school work like transporting primary school kids to the leisure centre for swimming.

Stagecoach Manchester have a large fleet of coaches at one of their depots. OK they are for Megabus but they could use them for other purposes if they wanted.

it only really SGB ( Stagecoach South West ) that does rail replacement with Megabus coaches but it their spares fleet most are ex NX coaches not ones on core megabus work. Megabus needs all there coaches as they have to hire in coaches from Snowdon Coaches and others with Stagecoach driving them.

The ones that was for schools at Hazal grove P&R was from SGB

Go Ahead is the only group that really does mix both private hire work and service work. one of the things that Go North West as not really looked at yet but I could see them with an NX route if they wanted.