Fairbrother's of Warrington

[stankevitch]

RE: Fairbrother's of Warrington

(13/06/2015 09:12)Dentonian Wrote:  I take it this "pound to town" offer no longer exists. You can't run a profitable service with revenue of "a handful" of pounds per journey, unless each bus is doing two or three round trips an hour.

Its only a pound on short sections, usually its £1.30 for a single and £1.80 for a return, highly competitive along sections where NW are charging around £2.10/2.30 for a single. A common section of that I used was between Wash Lane on the 1C and Warrington Town. Only issue I had was with Fairbrothers timings, as I'd have to get a NW back, or a taxi if I was at the pub late...

And given the load capacities of the services, they mainly use Solo's but still see a fair few deckers running the services, and the Solo's are M950s IIRC, ex Western Greyhound ones so do have a fair bit of size for them. And a 4 litre engine with a lighter vehicle gives a lot better fuel economy than a 7 litre double decker.

There are other plans afloat though too for the area.