Stagecoach MCSL - Gillmoss Depot

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RE: Stagecoach Merseyside - Gillmoss Depot
It has already been known that Stagecoach has approaches Halton, Warrington and I believe Avon, neither wanting to sell up.

Stagecoach won't end up buying an independents in liverpool compared to Manchester as they only have 1 depot this side of the mersey, and it's main focus is on the East Liverpool corridor. The liverpool independents mainly operate contracted services with a low PVR and generally a 16-33 seater bus. For stagecoach to buy a company like HTL or Cumfybus, and then loose all their contracts would be pointless when you realise that HTL and Cumfy don't operate a huge monopoly of unsupported services, If you think about it, if they bought HTL and lost all the contracts, they'd only have the 258 and SOME of the Garston Circulars, PVR 5.

Unless one of the companies falls into major financial problems, it is not worth the buyout to operate services that could be easily lost.