Arriva North West - St Helens Depot

[SLTRegular]

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The snows really stuck on Sandy Lane no gritters in sight didnt hear any buses or gritters go past the pub either?

[Jack]

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(16/01/2016 21:53)Metroline1511 Wrote:  Coming up to date, and as I have a free Saturday next week I am looking at trying the St Helens - Widnes QBP. I shall therefore be interested to see how the Arriva and Halton buses compare!

Arriva normally use Solo SRs and Halton Enviro200s.

[Metroline1511]

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(17/01/2016 00:46)jcksmnr Wrote:  Arriva normally use Solo SRs and Halton Enviro200s.

Thank you for preparing me. After I used an Arriva Daysaver on a Stagecoach journey on route 10a on my first bus trip of 2012, I plan to use the same ticket type on a Halton journey on route 17 on my first bus trip of 2016!

Integrated transport at its best.....

It also means that when I go to Liverpool next in September, I shall feel no compulsion to stop off en route to see the route 17 QBP.

[Valandil]

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(17/01/2016 17:44)Metroline1511 Wrote:  Thank you for preparing me. After I used an Arriva Daysaver on a Stagecoach journey on route 10a on my first bus trip of 2012, I plan to use the same ticket type on a Halton journey on route 17 on my first bus trip of 2016!

Just to let you know, you could get a branded vehicle on Halton's 17, but you wouldn't on Arriva's 17.

[RedPanda]

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(17/01/2016 19:07)Valandil Wrote:  Just to let you know, you could get a branded vehicle on Halton's 17, but you wouldn't on Arriva's 17.

Do stagecoach take the arriva nw £5.20 daysavers on the 10a? I know they didn't last year but halton takes them on the 17 and I'm pretty sure HTL do in evenings/sundays

[St Helens Rider]

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The weird thing with the 17/33 partnership is that four operators run the services (Arriva, Halton, HTL & Hattons). The timetable mentions that you can use Arriva/Halton tickets on HTL but no mention of if you can use them on Hattons.

[RedPanda]

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(17/01/2016 20:44)St Helens Rider Wrote:  The weird thing with the 17/33 partnership is that four operators run the services (Arriva, Halton, HTL & Hattons). The timetable mentions that you can use Arriva/Halton tickets on HTL but no mention of if you can use them on Hattons.

I wouldn't know where to start asking other than here. Be a good QBP if Hattons don't take whoevers tickets and only take Merseytravel tickets.

[MPTE1955]

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Surely Hattons wouldn't be carrying that many people if they don't take the other companies tickets. Therefore they would just be relying on passes and single fares.

[Raawwwrrr!]

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(17/01/2016 20:25)RedPanda Wrote:  Do stagecoach take the arriva nw £5.20 daysavers on the 10a? I know they didn't last year

Stagecoach have accepted ALL Arriva Day/Weekly printed tickets since the start of the QBP conception. - They HAVE too contractually

[CX54 DKD (Moderator)]

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I did think there was one stretch of the 10A somewhere around Whiston hospital where the ticketing rules differed but I can't remember it/the specifics of it well enough to really say with any certainty.