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Source for this please?

Doesn’t mention service 7 though.

Care to elaborate?

Source for this?

TfGM use a system called ‘resource tendering’ for schools where operators provide prices for their availability in each area of Manchester, then once anticipated demand for each route is confirmed the contracts are awarded. Unlike ‘normal’ tenders, operators don’t get to see the routes and...

Second Avenue, on the left hand side opposite the side gate to the Wright’s Pies factory. In the later days they also had a yard at the end of Second Avenue on the right hand side that is now used by a haulage firm. It wasn’t an outstation. It was a proper depot with engineering facilities. At...

On the Chester to Manchester line in Cheshire there is Mouldsworth, Delamere, Plumley, Mobberley and Ashley stations which have no nearby bus services. Mobberley does have a bus (D&G 88) but it goes nowhere close to the station. Also in Cheshire there are no buses to Styal on the Wilmslow to...

As it says on the Arriva website (www.arrivabus.co.uk/greenline/green-line-tickets), concessionary travel is free when boarding in London or Hertfordshire. Boarding elsewhere means a discounted fare must be paid. In this case it is nothing to do with where you travel to, but everything to do...

Transdev use Mobitec destination displays, whereas First, Arriva and Stagecoach all use Hanover displays. The Mobitec displays have a different refresh rate on the LED’s which makes them better to photograph. Operators tend to standardise on one system or another, so it’s no surprise that you...

Arriva Manchester’s Enviro300’s have ‘via Collage of Music’ on the Altrincham-bound rear display for route 263.

Obviously their business model was totally successful so everyone should look up to them as role models of the industry…

The same back-office payment handling system is used for capping, so I think it treats every incoming transaction the same way.

The issue with Ticketer doing online authorisations is that with it being a mobile system it doesn’t always guarantee a data connection, so effectively this wouldn’t work 100% of the time, particularly in rural areas.

Given this is part of my job (which shall remain anonymous), here’s the proper reason for the 10p charge… When Littlepay processes a transaction for settlement, a pre-authorisation amount needs to be sent to the issuing bank first in order to verify the card for contactless payments. This is to...

It’s quite common for a local authority or PTE’s (passenger transport executives - which represents several local authorities) to have operators of contracted services paint their vehicles in a uniform style to try and promote a ‘network’ of supported services. Examples of this include Nexus in...

But those vinyls probably took 30 minutes to apply. A full repaint takes at least a week, and probably longer given First’s livery has three separate colours.

When the regulations on the distance of local bus routes changed the route was split into two. Chester to Crewe (84) and Hanley to Nantwich (85). Short journeys also operated between Nantwich and Crewe (83) to provide an overall 20 minute frequency with hourly journeys to Hanley and Chester...

I followed that link and it shows ‘award criteria not specified’ so I’m unsure how you can determine what has actually been awarded, unless you work for Cheshire East in which case you are putting your job on the line by discussing this. It states that it’s an hourly service between Macclesfield...

I’d be interested to know your source of this information.

It is legal to run a ‘set-down only’ journey but it would not be eligible for Bus Service Operator’s Grant, whereas running dead would be eligible. Viability would depend on whether passenger revenue would be be more than the amount the grant pays for the distance travelled.