Warrington's Own Buses

[Valandil]

RE: WBT Network Warrington

(13/08/2015 17:00)Katie Wrote:  I am sorry to disagree with you but Warrington bound departures will generally leave Northwich four minutes before GHA Coaches. Network Warrington buses will generally leave Warrington Interchange on the hour which is twenty five minutes after GHA Coaches service. Only three of Network Warrington's 13 daily hourly trips to Northwich will leave Warrington Interchange five minutes before GHA Coaches. However there will be an 8.30 number 46 which is also five minutes before GHA Coaches but the NW service will curtail at the Cat & Lion at Stretton.

knutstransport may be thinking of the time of arrival at Northwich before heading on to Warrington perhaps? As this will generally be 9 minutes before GHA's 45 departs for Warrington. This is because the 46 will generally have 5 minutes' stand time at Northwich in this direction (much greater than the 2 minutes it gets in the other direction and the 0 minutes at the Wincham terminus no doubt because they want the 46 to run the 4-5 minutes ahead of GHA's 45 on the Wincham-Northwich stretch).
I think it's a little disappointing that Network Warrington is withdrawing completely from Antrobus -- would have been nice to reroute the 46's through there like what happened when the 6's no longer operated through to Lymm and the 5 was rerouted through Statham -- though I appreciate that there probably aren't that many passengers to be found there and it might take a minute or two longer to divert through there.

I also think it's interesting that they're calling the short journey to Stretton a 46 rather than a 9.
It will almost be possible to link up with the 8A to Hatton or the 8 from Hatton if travelling towards Warrington -- they miss each other by just a couple of minutes.