North West Bus Service Changes due to Coronavirus outbreak

[Rick Hunter]

RE: North West Bus Service Changes due to Coronavirus outbreak
The rota for next week at Wincham has been taken down for changes to be made so it's likely the 130 will be operated by Wincham. Nobody was using the 188 so it was dropped as was the 288 school bus in Altrincham.

(04/06/2020 09:08)knutstransport Wrote:  A limited 130 Handforth-Macclesfield is to restart on Monday. It looks like it's been coordinated with the 88 services meaning D&G departures from Macc will be:

08:45 88
09:45 130
10:45 88
11:45 130
12:45 88
13:45 130
14:45 88
15:45 130
16:45 88
17:45 130

Although, in the case of the latter it means the last Macclesfield-Handforth bus gets Sainsburys in Wilmslow at exactly the same time as the last Altrincham-Knutsford bus, so only someone very brave would catch the 17:45 departure from Macc, with the intention of changing in Wilmslow for Mobberley or Knutsford.

It also appears they'll be two D&G vehicles arriving at Macc at 08:40 (one off the 88, one off the 130) and one won't go out again until 09:45.

This will also mean the only D&G services without a Mon-Fri service from next week will be 89, 188, 316 and 319. (They won't be running a 38 service but Arriva are providing services on that route.)


Technically the school is open for children of essential workers. The 188 did continue to run for the first few days of the school only remaining open for essential workers but was then stopped so presumably either it wasn't used or those who used it were so far out at the end of the route that it was decided they could get the train from Mobberley station instead. Presumably there was no-one from the part of Mobberley near the Ilford works, otherwise with the early Knutsford bound 88 journeys not running they wouldn't have had an alternative.


Prior to the last train timetable recast a 16:00 finish would have be a bad finishing time for someone working in Knutsford and living in Northwich, as that would have meant they would have had to wait until 17:00, but now the trains are at 25 past it's not too bad. Although, obviously the train doesn't stop in the centre of Northwich.