First Manchester

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RE: First Manchester

(04/01/2019 19:34)SF07 Wrote:  First changes confirmed on their website. Some changes appear to confirm the closure of Rusholme depot.

Service 42 between Middleton and Chorlton Street will be withdrawn and replaced by extended service 41, which will run 4 journeys per hour between Sale and North Manchester General Hospital with half-hourly extensions to Middleton. Sunday daytime journeys will run between Sale and North Manchester General Hospital, while evening journeys will run between Sale and Manchester with journeys to Sale starting from stand S (outside Wetherspoons).

Service 53 will be re-timed with some early morning/evening journeys that had been terminating at Gorton or Rusholme now extended to Salford or Cheetham Hill.

Service 33 will be reduced again, dropping to half-hourly, having being every 15 minutes until October and currently every 20 minutes.

Monday-Saturday daytime journeys on service 415 will be re-routed via Moston instead of Foxdenton Lane (avoiding a low bridge). No changes to evening journeys or the Stagecoach Sunday daytime service.

https://www.firstgroup.com/greater-manch...nuary-2019

I had wondered whether First would eventually drop route 41 and let Stagecoach adopt it if interested. Now that it is being extended to NMGH / Middleton this seems less likely.