Stagecoach MCSL - Chester & Wirral Depots

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RE: Stagecoach MCSL - Chester & Wirral Depots

(28/07/2019 00:03)MTL0201 Wrote:  04.30 being the first southbound bus from Rock Ferry depot to Chester, can't recall an earlier service to Chester, & it's not a token early service either, next one is 04.50, 05.05 then about every 20 minutes, i know MTL started early when they operated the 10C, but the first service was just after 05.40 not 04.30, hmmm the 811 connects with the new 1 times so that gives plenty of early journey opportunities

There must be a sound reason for this but it eludes me. Across the Mersey, the first X2 from Preston runs OOS via the M6 and M58 then takes up service at Thornton/Crosby at 05.10. The driver must have to sign in about 04.00.

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RE: Stagecoach MCSL - Chester & Wirral Depots
Presumably then the 6 & 7 will interwork with the 2 journeys that terminate at Ellesmere Port?

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RE: Stagecoach MCSL - Chester & Wirral Depots

(28/07/2019 10:25)MTL0201 Wrote:  Presumably then the 6 & 7 will interwork with the 2 journeys that terminate at Ellesmere Port?

One of the two will go onto the 6&7
The other will then go to Mold as the 5

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RE: Stagecoach MCSL - Chester & Wirral Depots

(28/07/2019 08:34)mrd97 Wrote:  Is the 22 being run entirely out of the Chester depot? Because the first 3 buses Monday - Friday all start in either West Kirby or Heswall. Do they run dead or is it ran by both Rock Ferry and Chester? Also I’ve noticed some journeys arrive in Chester 50 minutes or so before the next journey out - does it interwork with another route? Surely that can’t be the layover

Chester are solely running the 22

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RE: Stagecoach MCSL - Chester & Wirral Depots

(28/07/2019 08:34)mrd97 Wrote:  Is the 22 being run entirely out of the Chester depot? Because the first 3 buses Monday - Friday all start in either West Kirby or Heswall. Do they run dead or is it ran by both Rock Ferry and Chester? Also I’ve noticed some journeys arrive in Chester 50 minutes or so before the next journey out - does it interwork with another route? Surely that can’t be the layover

There is a 4th bus which comes out at 10.29 and does 1 round trip then comes off (13.37). This works really well with the 16 peak extra/23 bus. If the 4th bus isn't added in, the timetable will be more messed up as it's needed to keep the hourly frequency. That is why on Saturday 3 buses are hourly then 1h.15 gap then 3 buses hourly.

The spare bus could be used for shuttles or just as a general spare to keep services going. Depending what gets sent out, it a local bus is late, it could help to bring the service back quicker.

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RE: Stagecoach MCSL - Chester & Wirral Depots
Not much of a good deal for Chester to loose the X8 in place of the 6/7/22

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RE: Stagecoach MCSL - Chester & Wirral Depots
The 22 was always going to go back to Chester at some point , it was a natural route for Chester and sort of very odd for Rock Ferry to operate .

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RE: Stagecoach MCSL - Chester & Wirral Depots

(28/07/2019 22:02)wirralbus Wrote:  The 22 was always going to go back to Chester at some point , it was a natural route for Chester and sort of very odd for Rock Ferry to operate .

Was the 22 ever operated by Chester depot? I don't think it was

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RE: Stagecoach MCSL - Chester & Wirral Depots

(28/07/2019 22:13)Y474 KNF Wrote:  Was the 22 ever operated by Chester depot? I don't think it was

The X22 ran from chester, the 22 ran from rock ferry

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RE: Stagecoach MCSL - Chester & Wirral Depots

(28/07/2019 22:13)Y474 KNF Wrote:  Was the 22 ever operated by Chester depot? I don't think it was

The first incarnation of the 22 before Stagecoach pulled the route first time round was operated by Chester ,only reason second time round it was operated by Rock Ferry is they had no spare room for the vehicles because the depot was full at Chester , same goes for the two routes operating in and around Ellesmere Port.

Stagecoach hierachy must think Rock ferry worthy to give all of the Chester - Liverpool market to them.