Diamond Bus North West

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RE: South Lancs Travel

(21/03/2015 23:10)Barney Wrote:  Neither. Under the current deregulated set-up there is no joined-up thinking. Each company's route stands or falls on its own merit. It might surprise our younger readers that once upon a time dead mileage was virtually unheard of and buses earned their keep as soon as they left the depot but those days have gone.

Absolutely true. Although I'm not old enough to remember regulated bus transport I do remember that a company I followed very closly, Maynes of Manchester, saw a lot of thier services start and finish at thier depot on Ashton new Road, but as you say it's very rare now to see the larger companies run positioning journeys etc, instead choosing to run dead.