Stagecoach Manchester and Wigan

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RE: Stagecoach Manchester

(20/02/2013 06:00)dave4jackie Wrote:  with wigan depot withdrawingloads of the old buses what routes are more likely to see some of the old first buses on rather than new stagecoach ones round wigan

Soon - none. But for now the 32 and X34 still have the old Geminis on them. Be quick though, because after the OFT case has been passed they'll be off to East Midlands and replaced by the Ex-London Tridents.

[St Helens Rider]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester
I do see the B7's regularly on the 600.

[thomasl1231]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester

(20/02/2013 06:00)dave4jackie Wrote:  with wigan depot withdrawingloads of the old buses what routes are more likely to see some of the old first buses on rather than new stagecoach ones round wigan

540s, 621s and 628s generally see B10BLEs quite a lot. The 610 also sees Olympian N412JBV working on it occasionally, along with the 13:45 540 departure from Wigan and the 15:57 540 departure from Bolton being ran usually by a Dennis Arrow (regularly) or a Volvo Olympian (occasioanlly).

[SF07]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester
Enviro of a different kind on the 22 yesterday afternoon, as one of the Enviro200 was used instead of MANs or Enviro400s used by Stagecoach.

[M60lad]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester
Interesting workings yesterday from HE saw 2 Magic ALX400 Tridents on 206 Piccadilly-Gee Cross service and ex London Trident17244 on 201/203 Piccadilly-Hattersley/Stockport services, these were due to resurfacing works just for this week going on near Reddish Bridge which are adding an extra hour or more to some journey times so Stagecoach are pulling out all the stops to keep services running to some sort of timetable.

Also 34114 is currently at Shartston Depot and is being used on the 84 Arrowfield Road Shuttle Service

[WhiteVanMan]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester
The proposed take-over of Bluebird of Middleton, has been cleared by the OFT.

http://otp.investis.com/clients/uk/s...&newsid=315031

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RE: Stagecoach Manchester

(22/02/2013 15:58)WhiteVanMan Wrote:  The proposed take-over of Bluebird of Middleton, has been cleared by the OFT.

http://otp.investis.com/clients/uk/s...&newsid=315031

Good news

[MX12EOC]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester

(22/02/2013 17:02)ace Wrote:  

(22/02/2013 15:58)WhiteVanMan Wrote:  The proposed take-over of Bluebird of Middleton, has been cleared by the OFT.

http://otp.investis.com/clients/uk/s...&newsid=315031

Good news

Well I wonder what's going to happen to all the personalised reg, and wether there would be any fleet changes. :3

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RE: Stagecoach Manchester
Well there are already a few Stagecoach darts helping out now, so by the time some of the older rubbish has been sorted through and scrapped I would guess many of the currect fleet would move on to the Bluebird depot.
This is probably where a lot of the Stockport spares will finish up in the wake of the 192 hybrid arrivals.

[M60lad]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester
Well I got told the other day that Stagecoach are planning on running 112s fro Hyde Road and HE would transfer 76 & 171s to operate out of Bluebirds Depot