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  1. stait.john

    Stagecoach Merseyside Cheshire and South Lancashire

    A number of E400 Hybrids are due to move from Stockport to Rock Ferry, they are fitted with AVA and the first three I believe moved last week. I assume these may be for Schools?
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    TfGM Bee Network - fleet discussion

    And the upcoming move of 5 Streetdecks from GNW to Stagecoach Stockport! 1788281786 10044, 10048 are the first E400s to be parked up ready for cascade within Stagecoach, 19562 & 19563 are now also decommissioned and into Reserve if any other OpCo would want them. 11255, 11256, 11799, 11813 &...
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    TfGM Bee Network - fleet discussion

    10412, 10423-10430, 10443, 10587 & 10588 all now based at Little Hulton.
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    Bee Network Service/Route Discussion

    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.
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    Bee Network Service/Route Discussion

    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...
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    First West of England (Bristol, Bath & The West)

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

    First West of England (Bristol, Bath & The West)

    33488 and 33790 now carry the new WESTbus green livery
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    First West of England (Bristol, Bath & The West)

    I suggested that the 43 terminate there
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    Bee Network Service/Route Discussion

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

    First West of England (Bristol, Bath & The West)

    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.
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    TfGM Bee Network - fleet discussion

    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...
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    First West of England (Bristol, Bath & The West)

    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
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    TfGM Bee Network - fleet discussion

    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...
  14. stait.john

    TfGM Bee Network - fleet discussion

    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...
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    First West of England (Bristol, Bath & The West)

    Branding removal although in the end only a small number were done on Sunday and nobody turned up today to finish the job!
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    TfGM Bee Network - fleet discussion

    47629 returned to Oldham now with 47610/47611 in for paint at MellorBus. 47630 in for repaint at Adderley Green
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    TfGM Bee Network - fleet discussion

    47629 at Mellors, 33854 at Adderley Green
  18. stait.john

    First West of England (Bristol, Bath & The West)

    Yes exactly right, to come later in the year as the first lot will cascade out to FSY from Bramley.
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    TfGM Bee Network - fleet discussion

    First: currently in for paint are 33854 and 47629.
  20. stait.john

    First West of England (Bristol, Bath & The West)

    Oldham have a large number of schools contracts so these 12 B9s will finish on Friday evening and will not be used on Saturday so they can be transferred down on that day (23rd)

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