Stagecoach MCSL - Chester & Wirral Depots

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RE: Stagecoach Chester & Wirral

(07/08/2016 18:47)Metroline1511 Wrote:  Coming back to Chester & Wirral, and I can see a partial remedy. In Manchester, Ashton recently lost routes 168/69 to sharston and Hyde Road route 197 to Stockport.

So, routes 471/72 could move Rock Ferry to Gillmoss, route 10a Gillmoss to Wigan, route 34 Wigan to Hyde Road, and route 201 or 204 Hyde Road to Ashton. Simples, as the Meerkats would say!

Not quite.
Gilmoss is a very large depot with a large amount of storage (because Stagecoach have much lower PVR than when they acquired it, and also buses are parked in rows rather than on 45 degree angles like it was originally designed), if needs be both the 471/472 and 10A could stay there happily.

The dead mileage of the 197 moving to Stockport depot is barely 200 yards. The dead mileage from Gilmoss to Liverpool is 6 miles, and the dead mileage to Heswall around 16.
Moving routes such as the 10A to Wigan would mean the service would need to transfer licences not to mention the amount of dead mileage when there is a breakdown or bus needs replacing