Recent content by stait.john

And the upcoming move of 5 Streetdecks from GNW to Stagecoach Stockport!

10412, 10423-10430, 10443, 10587 & 10588 all now based at Little Hulton.

The MCFC matchday buses start back this Sunday, hopefully the ongoing closure of the Northbound Alan Turing Way will not prove to be too much of an issue. The MC2 from Marple will be operated by Stockport Depot.

The 217 was on the initial list of services to be operated by Metroline and indeed still was until quite advanced stages. Then it just disappeared. 201 extension via the old 236 routing to Glossop would be good but wouldn’t help with reliability on the main route. I remember when some of the...

I believe it’s every bus in the WECA area yes.

33488 and 33790 now carry the new WESTbus green livery

I suggested that the 43 terminate there

Go North West to open a depot in Denton ready for January 2025. As seen on their recruitment page.

A large number of cascades have just started off in the interests of fleet standardisation where possible. Starting things off 36802, 36804 Bath to Lawrence Hill and 47555, 47556 make the same move.

If it’s the same as TfL tenders, then generally the operators usually have a higher spares percentage due to the penalties involved of lost mileage. Can’t see how or why TFGM would specify the number of spare vehicles at each depot, as has been said I’d suggest it may have been under resourced...

The 5 and 77 are actually booked single deck according to the running boards, so that’s 7 for LH. I think personally that as long as the lettering and branding is removed from the bee network liveried buses, they should be ok to use, maybe it’s a case of interpretation of the rules? John

They were painted as the delivery dates for the new buses wasn’t certain and we wanted to make a good impression. The 63xxx Streetlites and 5 of the E400s are used on non-tranche 2 school contracts hence why they’re still in Olympia, and additionally the First Amazon contract and the 13 MCFC...

First update: Only 4 short Streetlites left at First Rochdale now, 47418, 47432, 47433 & 47632. All others have been cascaded out via Adderley Green. 69445, 69446, 69447, 69506, 69509 & 69510 have also gone for temporary storage at Adderley Green. 47612, 47629 & 47634 have gone to First...

Branding removal although in the end only a small number were done on Sunday and nobody turned up today to finish the job!

47629 returned to Oldham now with 47610/47611 in for paint at MellorBus. 47630 in for repaint at Adderley Green