Stagecoach MCSL - Chester & Wirral Depots

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RE: Stagecoach MCSL - Chester & Wirral Depots

(10/01/2022 18:56)knutstransport Wrote:  Driver who did the last 48 run today left on the tracking and it looks like it finished the 48 run in Frodsham at 17:37 and got back to the depot at 18:03, so not an excessive amount of time to run empty for. I doubt D&G drivers can get between Wincham and Wilmslow in 26 minutes.

I do think it would be good to see them bring in an X30 trip though for it. Cover the dead mileage and enhance the local bus service slightly but it has to be weighed up on whether it would cover it's costs. I am not 100% sure. The morning I think it would, the Arriva X30 carried one or two when they did the early trip (I think it was 2 years or so ago when it was proposed for Hawarden to run the X30. It never happened but it was very close to happening).

25 mins dead running isn't much though when you consider that Rock Ferry has 1 bus which runs dead to and 1 bus dead from Chester each day. Chester also used to have the dead run to Mold when they ran the Flintshire 5.