First Manchester

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RE: First Manchester

(15/07/2019 06:21)M60lad Wrote:  Regarding Oldham Depot routes they currently operate the following:

6 Rochdale-Kirkholt Circular
24 (Peak Only) Rochdale-Piccadilly
38 Ashton-Hazelhurst Circular
39 Ashton-Hazelhurst Circular
58 Rochdale-Oldham via Milnrow, Newhey and Shaw
59 Rushcroft-Piccadilly via Shaw, Oldham, Middleton, Cheetham Hill
81 Derker-Piccadilly Via Oldham & Moston
81A Holts Estate-Piccadilly via Lees, Oldham & Moston
83 Sholver-Piccadilly via Oldham & Werneth
180 Greenfield-Piccadilly via Lees, Oldham, Hollins
181 Shaw/Rochdale-Piccadilly via Royton & Chadderton
182 Shaw/Rochdale-Piccadilly via Royton, Royal Oldham Hospital & Chadderton
184 Uppermill/Huddersfield via Lees, Oldham, Hollins
331 Ashton Circular via Smallshaw & Husrt
333 Ashton Circular via Hurst & Smallshaw
348 Ashton-Carrbrook via Stalybridge
350 Oldham-Ashton via Delph, Uppermill, Hey Farm, Mossley & Tameside Hospital
393 Ashton Circular via Smallshaw & Hartsheat Estate
409 Rochdale-Ashton via Royton & Oldham
425 Holts Estate-Fitton Hill via Oldham
454 Rochale-Stansfield via Littleborough & Shore
457 Rochdale-Stansfield via Shore & Littleborough
X84 Carrcote-Piccadilly Express via Uppermill (Peaks Only)

There's also the 389 between Ashton and Hyde via Ridge Hill and Stalybridge. Plus the 346 until Saturday.

(16/07/2019 10:46)gilesbus1 Wrote:  Are any of the above tendered, and are any Evenings/Sundays only? The Rochdale and Ashton town services seem to make two nice little packets that could be split off separately to independent operators or Transdev/Stagecoach there.

58 is wholly tendered. Evening and Sundays journeys on the 181/182 are tendered and there's also the last journey on the 59.

Tendered journeys on services 6, 38, 39, 81, 81A, 348, 350, 389 and 425 are all operated by other operators (namely MCT and Stagecoach) during evenings and Sundays. I think the only tendered services First now run during evenings and Sundays are the 2, 68, 181 and 182.

First have lost a few tendered services or given up running some services in Oldham, Rochdale and Tameside in recent years, which are now operated by MCT and Stagecoach, such as the 41, 149, 332, 337 (re-numbered 339), 338, 387, 402, 406 (now partly merged into 149), 408, 410/411, 412, 415, 419, 451, 452 (withdrawn) and 462.