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Fosse Park is a major retail park just minutes off the M1 at junction 21. The reason locations such as this are used, is it results in a minimal time delay to the overall long distance route, allowing Leicester to be added to the map, but without adding too much time for those wishing to travel...

Based on the new registrations, the revised WEST LOTHIAN routes (X18, X27/28) will have a Peak Vehicle Requirement (PVR) of 22 buses. You‘ll then need to add the 43 to get the total requirement for LC at Deans.

4 of which are in the suburbs, with one in neighbouring Renfrewshire, so I think you can rule them out, based on the OPs criteria. However, if you’d like to have a go at the numerous city centre bus stations that used to exist, you might be in with a shout? ;) o_O

In Edinburgh it is no longer First that compete with the various Lothian tours, since they sold out to McGill’s last month.

There has never been a 90 day notice period for cancellations - pre or post covid. The normal registration process is 70 days. Initially operators send the details to the relevant local authorities, before finally submitting to the Office of the Traffic Commissioner at no less than 42 days. In...

It’s between the 21 and 29, just where you’d expect it to be. Are you looking in the right place?

Don’t you have to actually provide a service before you can claim any reimbursement? ;)

The ability to change regular timetables at short notice is no longer available to operators, so they have to predict a minimum of 10 weeks into the future! I suspect the TC is aware of that, hence the soft approach being taken.

Correct. Marketing, Commercial and Customer Service are all centralised First functions, so no staff with those roles at Scotland East.

There have been many parked up out of use at all the main depots for some time, so yes I’d expect a lot of the older stuff will end up simply being disposed of.

I think it was 285 buses acquired, with around 100 less than that required to be operational, based on the current service levels.

It was only there for the day, and was out on the X25 for a few trips this morning.

I suspect that these service cuts (and many others across the country) are as much driven by the driver shortage, as they are by their financial viability. Slimming down the network will probably mean that they can reliably provide the services they intend to continue.

Well that’s gone entirely as expected! :rolleyes:

The ticket options are the same!

There are 15 E400MMCs transferring with the FSE business. Five 15/65 plate examples (39301-5), and ten 66 plate examples (33436-38/43-49).

Yep, and me. I think the construction work is at the @Typhoon end.

It’s not a Ticketer design, it’s the standard livery template of the app supplier - Passenger - that is used by a wide number of operators.

The 66 was all operated out of Larkfield Depot for a long time. Not sure when Knightswood/Scotstoun first gained workings on it, but it was late 90s at the earliest.

With the bank holiday now on the 19th, I’ve been advised the first day of Mcill’s ownership will now be the 20th.