First Manchester

[Owl]

RE: First Manchester

(27/07/2015 13:13)Dentonian Wrote:  You would have to ask First, but I don't ever recall short workings of a specific route using a different number in GM. There might be an agrument for re-introducing the "X" suffix now that all blinds are automated, but generations of Greater Mancunians are used to a single number denoting a specific line of route, even if the journey doesn't cover the full route. In fact, I would venture to suggest that Stagecoach using 114 for short 112s just because they have to turn on to Mainway to physically turn round, caused more confusion than had they just stuck to 112, with or without a suffix letter. In the early days especially, how many inbound passengers in Moston or Harpurhey let 114s go past and waited for a 112 and then complained (even if only amongst themselves) that Stagecoach had halved the service?

Thanks for the background Dentonian, I hadn't appreciated the history behind it