Stagecoach Manchester and Wigan

[acocker96]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester

(16/02/2014 23:51)Mayneway Wrote:  

(16/02/2014 18:22)acocker96 Wrote:  

(16/02/2014 17:44)ace Wrote:  Most of the tridents are either slow, or generally unreliable. If you go along Oxford Road and stay there for any length of time, you'll often see a Magic Bus broke down, though the worst ones are the ex London ones with reg numbers NNO, or should we say N N NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Stotts have 3 Ex-Stagecoach Londonm Tridents, two are X-NNO. 1 is X352 NNO and I can't remember the number of the other but one is slow and the other is fast. We used to get them on our school bus which was run by Stotts the driver said the slow one only had a 3-litre engine because London is very flat so the fuel pump was set to limit the amound of fuel getting into the engine which is why they are so slow.

Stotts actually have 5 Tridents now.
Apparently the feeling is that the 51 reg performs a lot better than the two NNO examples so they have bought a further two 51 reg Tridents, with more expected over coming months.
interestingly last time I was up in Oldham the two NNO examples were still in London red while the 51 reg had received full livery so possibly the NNO examples aren't staying.

But getting back to Stagecoach, the recent ex London examples are slow and seem to lack power. They struggle on the 168/169 which is a flat route. The conversion to single door is also quite poor on some of them compared to others suggesting some were rushed into service. One even still has the glass panels between the seats were the centre door was.

I was never actually sure why the X-regs are still in red but the first 51-reg turned up in new livery it appeared twice on our school bus and it was strange because it carries 'beachball' interior and I always get on the 76 so it was weird. They also either 1 or 2 B10BLE's which also arrived in new livery.