Route sharing

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Route sharing
With the imminent arrival of 38 new deckers for the 10 road, on another thread, it has been suggested that, as the whole service will comprise of brand new Enviro 400s, it would make sense for SH and GL to share these routes thus allowing earlier and later departures for this lengthy route. This makes sense to me but what do other people think?

Prior to deregulation I can think of a few long routes that were operated by two depots on Merseyside (500, GM and Speke, Southport services, LV and SP). Personally, I think that the Southport services (47, 300) should be shared between BT and SP. Merseybus depots also shared routes when they operated cross-city services (19, 79, 82, 86) but in recent times each depot has had responsibility for its own specific routes.

I would be interested to learn if shared (local) routes exist elsewhere in the UK.