Stagecoach MCSL - Chester & Wirral Depots

[Quackdave]

RE: Stagecoach Chester & Wirral

(31/01/2017 17:15)gka472l Wrote:  Although we need to hang fire on these fleetnumbers as they may be wrong.....'10826' apparently should be 10811, a case of wait and see!

It will be interesting to see what they do. Intuitively, it feels as though if the fleet numbers on the buses don't match the fleet numbers on the computer system, then it would be a good deal easier to change the latter than the former. I guess it depends to some extent on the organisational culture - whether it's the "S.E.P." style ("not our problem, get back up your stepladders and change them"), or the "One Team" ethos of finding the optimum solution that minimises overall effort.

Looking for examples to help guess at which scenario is more likely, I notice that Hastings's 10721 (SN66 VXL) and Hull's 10743 (SN66 VWL) would appear to have originally been intended the opposite way around - so presumably the system is not totally inflexible to initial number assignments changing.