First Manchester

[Damien]

RE: First Manchester
Have some information, on First manchester Bury Depot, comes direct from an engineer who works at Bury Depot.

34028,34291.34294 although withdrawn in April with the rest of the batch. Were put back into service for a maximum of 6 months, due to them having longer MOTs than 34023,34069,34070,34029 etc.

In addition Towards the End of August Bury Depot are re launching the 471 and 135 services as overground. At the same time Bolton Depot will relaunch the 36 and 37. So now the bendis are not to leave Bury at this time, instead will be painted into the new livery along with the Bury Depot based B9S and at least 2 B7s. The plan at the moment is that the 6 B9s Oldham depot are sending to the olympics, will be exchanged for 6 Barbie B9s.

This information has also appeared on the Gm buses group