Stagecoach MCSL - Gillmoss Depot

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RE: Stagecoach Merseyside - Gillmoss Depot
Paper allocation for the Tridents is 2 on 82/86, and 5 on 86C, with 2 spare. This is just how it should be ON PAPER, they can allocate them differently if they feel it is better to.

Back to the double decker debate, again, full buses in peaks don't always mean the service is profitable enough to justify the cost of a double decker. Using 53 as an example (because it is a recently mentioned route), there are 63 trips in a day, Monday to Friday, between Queen Square and Crosby. For arguments sake, let's say 10 of those each day are main peak runs, and take £80 each (just a random number for explanation purposes). If the other runs take on average £30 each, you'll have the route taking on average £2390 in a day. That is then averaged out over the number of buses on the route, to give an average taking per bus of £239 for the day (PVR 10 for 53). Per run, there'd be an average taking of £38. For arguments sake, say £10 of that goes to the drivers wages (an hour each direction to keep it simple for explanation), the bus could use £10 of diesel, leaving £18 per run to go towards engineering costs (including cleaning staff and equipment), administration costs, utility bills in the depot, vehicle tax and insurance, bus station fees (operators have to pay departure charges for each run to use a bus station) and other operational costs.

I don't know what the routes actually take, and even if I did it wouldn't be posted in the public domain as it is commercially sensitive information, but hopefully that helps people on here to understand more about the figures. The more money on average that a route takes, the more there is after the "deductions" to fund more expensive larger/newer vehicles. Figures can be affected by the number of journeys passengers make with megariders.

[NOTE: All figures are for explanation purposes only and do not reflect the status of any services]