Stagecoach Manchester

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RE: Stagecoach Manchester

(16/04/2013 15:01)Mayneway Wrote:  

(15/04/2013 19:52)ace Wrote:  

(15/04/2013 06:53)M60lad Wrote:  Since Stagecoach Manchester transferred some Envirios to both Wigan and Rock Ferry Depot's and transfered others between Depots it seems to me that it has left Stockport Depot short of the type and usually during the week and the odd time on Saturdays the Spectra's can find their way into normal service

That was clever.
40 new hybrids come to free up 40 buses, and they transfer out too many and leave themselves short. Weren't the tridents supposed to going to Wigan soon as well?

Couldn't the same be said for HE though?
The apparent conversion of the ex London Tridents last year was for them to cover for Enviro400's going down to the Olympics. Yet they returned and the Tridents are still in regular use. They keep cropping up on the 168's and 169's on a daily basis.
I know it's been hinted that they should be moved on by summer, but I carnt wait to see the back them. Horrid buses

Yes the same could be said for HE to a degree. Difference is, they didn't cart 20 buses off to East Midlands and Kent at a time when Stagecoach were buying 2 new depots full of 97 year old buses, following which a local company went bust and emergency tenders had to be arranged, and then finally 6 Enviro400's were sent to Yorkshire to cover for problems they were having with hybrids.
At least there's only 3 of them at HE, as opposed to 10 at Stockport. Ashton also have 2 and Sharston still have 1 for good measure.