First Manchester

[Nicholas]

RE: First Manchester

(03/07/2015 18:57)SF07 Wrote:  I catch the X80 regularly and its loadings do vary. Was quite busy this afternoon but then sometimes, it may have a maximum of a dozen people on it.

To put it a little more simply, the 184 shorts are withdrawn and the X80 is reverting back to an all-stops 180.

The timings mean that basically the X80 and 184 shorts are merged. It wasn't the case when the X80 was first introduced as they were evenly spaced at the Manchester end at a 7/8 minute frequency , more recently the 184 has been a straight 10 minute frequency with the X80s thrown out of the group.

It's just being done as a cost saving measure - we've seen plenty of these already over the last 12 months in that particular area (e.g. 83s being cut from 7/8 to 10 minutes).