Stagecoach Manchester

[Mayneway]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester and Wigan

(11/06/2016 05:36)M60lad Wrote:  One thing I've noticed about Ashton Depot is what might be the acute shortage of single deckers recently, over the past couple of weeks and deckers have even been turning up on the odd duty on 345 Denton Circulars as of late and even 347 seems to mostly Enviro400s these days with the odd Hybrid Enviro400 turning up on the route as well like yesterday and at least 3 days this week including yesterday a driver friend of mine has been taking a decker out for his morning School which then goes onto to 183s then his afternoon School as well

Apart from the 342/4 and possibly the 183 and 345 everything else can easily be run with double deckers. Services like the 236/7 and 347 suffer greatly with over crowding espically at peak so it makes sense to use deckers where possible. Why allocaters stick an Enviro200 on daytime 236's is anyone's guess. Not only does it pick up heavy loads at Tameside college but come half 2 it gets busy kids from west hill and Longendale.