First Manchester

[Nicholas]

RE: First Manchester

(16/06/2012 10:02)gemini6491 Wrote:  With the X34 increase to every 30 minutes are we expecting any more B9's to be transferred over to WN?

If so, I would assume it would be the leather seated (ex X35) Geminis currently based at Bolton. Well, that would seem the most logical option!

One thing that I've found out is that morning peak X34s will NOT serve Boothstown (thank goodness, I can live with it in the evening peak as traffic flow through Boothstown is lighter when compared with the morning flow.

Quote:Also does anybody know which depot's will be operating the revised 12/25/26 routes?

Again, further details have come out about this. The 12 will be reduced to hourly, and the 25 will also run hourly. Apparently, the 25 will run via Astley, so I assume it will run up Prince's Avenue and Astley Street to remove some of the void left by SLT's withdrawal of the 581. It will also terminate at Piccadilly.

The 26 will remain as an evening / Sunday service. All three services will run as a limited stop service between Swinton and Salford Central Station. Still don't know about which depot is running what, but could all be run by one depot as they may interwork?

Also, further info has come out about more changes to services:

24 - commercial service withdrawn. This would leave just two Sunday morning journeys running out of Manchester. I can see TfGM withdrawing these if no replacement is provided for the rest of the service.

93/137/138 - some sort of big revamp, details not yet available (apparently a "version 2" is being awaited).

98 - minor timetable change on Sundays.

167 - terminus moved from Piccadilly to Shudehill.

180/184 - timetable revised (journeys moved round by 10 minutes), probably now Metrolink work has ended.

182 - rerouted via Nuthurst Road to replace the 24.

353/354 - minor retiming for punctuality issues.

610 - extended to Lockett Road as previously mentioned. Reduced to run every 20 minutes though.

625/626 - retimed.

X84 - evening journeys to run 5 minutes later.

Summer times on services 8, 17/17A/18, 32, 33, 37, 52, 53, 68, 81/A, 82/83, 98, 100, 110, 180/4, 409, 425, 471, 507, 510, 524, 540, 561/2, 575, 582, 598, 600/1, 621/8, 631/2

Details posted onto GM Buses Yahoo Group.