Operators based in North East Wales

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RE: Operators based in North East Wales
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N E Wales News 9th March 2020

Pats Coaches, Southsea, Wrexham.
PC20PAT the new Temsa MD9 Executive Coach (C34Ft) arrived last Tuesday and saw service immediately the following day. It is currently used regularly on the Reaseheath College run. It has been given partial vinyls - with the twirls still to be added - <PHOTO PC20PAT>
S888STS (Mercedes Benz Atego 1018L / UNVI Cimo) has gone to Arriva Bus and Coach in part exchange for the new Temsa.
Also leaving the fleet is R10ARE Scania L94IB / Van Hool T9 Alizee. It regained its original registration number R351LPR on leaving. It came to Pats in August 2014 from Oares Coaches. It has gone to AH Sleepers Ltd., Yaxley, Peterborough.

Voel Coaches, Dyserth, Rhyl
The recently arrived Volvo B12B / Plaxton Panther YN10AAY has been re-registered to 7488VC.
The three withdrawn Volvo B10M-61 / Van Hool T8 Alizees F168RJF, F674TFH and A605GAP have all now left Voel to a scrap merchant in Wigan. The 4th - A604GAP - has now been withdrawn and is expected to leave soon.

easyCoach - The Skiers Lodge Limited - TSL (Wales) Limited - Express Airport Transfers (Europe) Limited - Andrew MARTIN
Following the demise of the easyBus and easyCoach operations in the Wrexham and Shrewsbury area the Traffic Commissioner for Wales held a Public Inquiry in October 2018. The result of this Inquiry was revocation of the licences and Andrew Martin the person behind the firm was disqualified for a certain period from holding or applying for an operators licence or being a Transport Manager. An appeal was made by Andrew Martin and the companies concerned against this decision. This Appeal was heard in June 2019 and whilst the period of the disqualification was varied for a technical reason the significant elements of the Traffic Commissioner's decision was upheld and the appeal dismissed. The full details of the decision of the Upper Tribunal can be read at <LINK> . This document does give a very good summary of this very unhappy saga.