Arriva North West - Wythenshawe Depot

[T42 PVM (Moderator)]

RE: Arriva North West - Wythenshawe Depot
Wrong feed to talk about Winsfords Centros but the replacements wont be Pulsars, the displaced ones are for St Helens for Renown replacements

[knutstransport]

RE: Arriva North West - Wythenshawe Depot

(29/03/2017 09:38)33109 Wrote:  Macclesfield seem to be doing well with the 130 so far & have got 4 of the sapphire pulsars plus 3160.

What exactly do you mean by doing well? Services leaving Wilmslow between 5 and 20 minutes late seems to be fairly common.

[33109]

RE: Arriva North West - Wythenshawe Depot
Managing ok with it (or at least they were) few drivers I know have said it's better in rush hour because apparently there's more time allowed for those runs.

[dca529x]

RE: Arriva North West - Wythenshawe Depot

(29/03/2017 13:19)33109 Wrote:  Managing ok with it (or at least they were) few drivers I know have said it's better in rush hour because apparently there's more time allowed for those runs.

Instead of increasing the resource to ensure a balanced frequency, all that has happened is the increased running time has destroyed the PM clockface timetable. Reliability still isn't what it should be. Hardly OK.

[33109]

RE: Arriva North West - Wythenshawe Depot
I agree there, it's not nearly as reliable as it was & having them hourly instead of 30min frequency has stuffed it totally.

[joe_alker]

RE: Arriva North West - Wythenshawe Depot
Scania N280UD Enviro400MMC Biogas demonstrator DD16 GAS should be staying here for a month doing routes 130/263.

[mikemcniven]

RE: Arriva North West - Wythenshawe Depot

(30/03/2017 19:34)joe_alker Wrote:  Scania N280UD Enviro400MMC Biogas demonstrator DD16 GAS should be staying here for a month doing routes 130/263.

When will it be entering service, and hope they do get some for the 263 sometimes the current Enviro300's are very busy especially when Metrolink goes down

[33109]

RE: Arriva North West - Wythenshawe Depot
I've had it on the 263 this week, really smart bus & so quiet! That working into macc on the 130 will create quite a stir.

We've never seen anything that posh since the pulsars arrived!!!

[dca529x]

RE: Arriva North West - Wythenshawe Depot

(11/05/2017 17:38)33109 Wrote:  I've had it on the 263 this week, really smart bus & so quiet! That working into macc on the 130 will create quite a stir.

We've never seen anything that posh since the pulsars arrived!!!

It there actually any intention to run it on the 130 ?

It (on Mon - Fri at least) appears to run at the same times every day on the 263, which may be deliberate,

[M60lad]

RE: Arriva North West - Wythenshawe Depot
Apparantly the MMC400 Gas Bus has now finished its trial here at Wythenshawe Depot and in its place has come fleetnumber 7911 YK66CBC Yutong E12LF another to be used on 263s I think.