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Interesting to see, also in the timetable, that the 34 Leigh - St Helens will now have a Sunday and an Evening service introduced.

The other issue although not directly route related is where Go North West will operate all these extra vehicles from, as Bolton is nearing capacity, Bolton Nelson Street is for work in Bury and contract schools in North Manchester/Rochdale/Bury and Wigan is due to move to a much smaller site...

The site has been acquired by developers to allow the site to be used to access a new extension to the South Lancs Industrial Estate at the rear of this site.

The original depot in Redcar closed on 09/11/2001, and is now the Morrisons Supermarket as you suggest, it was on Regent Street and had an allocation of 41 vehicles the Dormanstown depot openned on the same day, with an allocation of between 60 and 70 vehicles, Boathouse Lane at Stockton had an...

I don't think anyone will buy Ember out, as its grown too quickly, its likely it will merely collapse and go bust at some stage in the future when the Scottish Government funding drys up, the player who is effected by Ember the most is no doub't Scottish Citylink and to a lesser extent Scot...

Thats unlikely existing premises unless they where oversized in the first place simply don't have enough space to add extra vehicles and charging facilities, while I am sure Arriva have done there sums with Redcar depot, I am sure, that what will happen is like when other towns have lost bus...

I am suprised that vehicles will be moving to Whitby as Whitby is merely an outstation of Redcar at the moment, so one must assume that either it will become an outstation of Stockton, or it will be built up into a proper garage, which seems a strange thing to do, when closing another depot, how...

It really would be a cost effective way if all the ex Diamond Streetdecks and Diamonds own Streetdecks and all the Metroline Streetdecks plus those at Stagecoach Manchester and the ex Metroline examples at Wigan where simply converted to Electric Power, although I am not sure the conversion...

I've just seen 2120 and 2125 in use on 582, along with 2107 from last years batch, surely this is just to run them in, though route 582 must surely be a contestant for new electric buses soon as well? I suspect the first part of the batch might be those intended for the 8 and 10, with the...

The next depots to be electrified are Wigan and Wythenshawe, with both expected to be electrified starting in June 2026, however it will take place over three years, these are stage 3 electrifications appartently, and there will be a further stage 4, whatever that means, presume Queens Road will...

There was no North Bolton Depot it was SB South Bolton, NB was North Bury, in fact the codes a low cost units where as follows:- BE - Boyle Street BT - Bennett Street CS - Charles Street MS - Mumps, Oldham - This is the Oldham SOU talked about above NB - North Bury SA - South Atherton SB -...

I've just found some news on a construction website, that seems to suggest that Wigan and one of the two Wythenshawe depots, which one is not specified, are to be converted to Electric Operation with work starting later this year, as phase 5, a phase 6 is due for some other depots but that will...

That remains to be seen, obviously in the mid term, as they are diesels and the idea is that all diesels will be replaced, for Wright Streetdecks to come you would be waiting for a similar batch to the 10 already shipped in at Metroline to become available, as Wigan hasn't got any electrics or...

This is perhaps not too suprising as they have been publishing books since the 1970's thats 50 years or there abouts, so if he started publishing at 18 he would be 68 now, and I would suspect he would start publishing at a much older age. I will miss them though as they always do a good well...

There where Major Bus Operators Scotland Books published in 1984 and 1985, then the name changed to Scottish Bus Handbook from 1988, they are hard to find in mint condition as they tend either to fall apart or get marked by spotters. The 1984 1st edition has a Lothian Leyland Atlantean on the...