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nathanchansc

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See 8th January. What’s the allure with Maxim Park I wonder? Are they paying for this detour? Of my last 8 trips at various times, we dropped off 2 and collected 1. It seems such an odd deviation for such little custom.
Sorry missed that!! Yeah not many people getting on and off Maxim Park even at peak hours. Some people use it as a pick up point and hop on cars. Would have hoped with 7 services and hour together with Flixbus, some could run as a super express especially at commuting hours, non stop between Glasgow and Edinburgh Maybury. Or some services run through Queensferry Road or Calder Road, instead of all services serving the same areas in Edinburgh.
 
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What’s the allure with Maxim Park I wonder? Are they paying for this detour?
The stop made a bit more sense before as the time penalty wasn't as much for serving there, but now with the junction being expanded, you are contending with 2 extra roundabouts and a spend around 3 miles less on the motorway which surely must be massively increasing the time penalty to serve here?
 
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Noticed no one has mentioned it on this thread - the 900 has increased it's frequency to up to every 12 minutes. Very positive move and wondering what's the impact on the Flixbus 090.

Would've loved to see some of the additional runs go direct to Edinburgh without Ballieston/Maxim Park.
Was mentioned back on the 6th January if you go up the thread, not much considering the 090 has stayed a half hour frequency for a good while
 

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See 8th January. What’s the allure with Maxim Park I wonder? Are they paying for this detour? Of my last 8 trips at various times, we dropped off 2 and collected 1. It seems such an odd deviation for such little custom.
The logo is on the timetable so not surprised. There is commuters who travel to Maxim Park, as otherwise its a nightmare to get to.

The AIR also stops, I have seen people go to the airport from Maxim Park, though you can't park there easily. I reckon there is scope for a park and ride here.

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Noticed no one has mentioned it on this thread - the 900 has increased it's frequency to up to every 12 minutes. Very positive move and wondering what's the impact on the Flixbus 090.

Would've loved to see some of the additional runs go direct to Edinburgh without Ballieston/Maxim Park.
Surprised the 090 is still running. I did see a busy 090 a few weekends back funnily enough.

Easier buying the £10 return ticket from the driver than fiddling around with an app and committing to specific times with Flix. Flix buses **** up within 2 hours of departure too.
 
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The logo is on the timetable so not surprised. There is commuters who travel to Maxim Park, as otherwise its a nightmare to get to.

The AIR also stops, I have seen people go to the airport from Maxim Park, though you can't park there easily. I reckon there is scope for a park and ride here.

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Surprised the 090 is still running. I did see a busy 090 a few weekends back funnily enough.

Easier buying the £10 return ticket from the driver than fiddling around with an app and committing to specific times with Flix. Flix buses **** up within 2 hours of departure too.
Concessions will keep the 090 to an extent, Was fully booked over Christmas and New Year mostly so it can't be doing too badly, It also had one over on Citylink on Christmas Day by taking NECs and Citylink never, Citylink only started accepting NECs on New Year's Day this year for the first time
 

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You can now book until December 2026 on services apart from "west coast routes" which are until May.
 

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Stagecoach seems to be closing its Cumbernald depot and Scottish Citylink services are to be affected, wonder what will happen to the shifts that are operated out of there
 

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Just to ask How many Citylink duties are at Cumbernauld? Are Stagecoach pulling off Citylink work from the Perth depot aswell? Reason asking is How many coaches could be up for grabs for the likes of X59, X7 or even X77.
 

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Just to ask How many Citylink duties are at Cumbernauld? Are Stagecoach pulling off Citylink work from the Perth depot aswell? Reason asking is How many coaches could be up for grabs for the likes of X59, X7 or even X77.
Has anyone actually said that Stagecoach are pulling out of the regional Scottish Citylink work?
 

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900s will go to WCM depot and will be operated by Stagecoach staff which further rumours from staff will see them tuped to WCM.
I’m not familiar with a lot of the processes surrounding this, but could there be a scenario where Park’s has the 900 fully? I’m not sure if they still do M8’s etc but for them maybe it would make sense to drop those in favour of sole tender of the 900?
 

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Has anyone actually said that Stagecoach are pulling out of the regional Scottish Citylink work?
Nobody - it's just someone reading that Stagecoach are dropping the 6 Cites workings out of Cumbernauld and jumped straight to 'Stagecoach are pulling off Citylink'
 

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Has anyone actually said that Stagecoach are pulling out of the regional Scottish Citylink work?
Yes, Stagecoach have communicated that to their staff. They are losing money on their ‘Saltire Cross’ Citylink work, so they will no longer run any diagrams on that work from Easter. Their work on the 900 will continue.
 

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Thank you, Going by that Perth is losing its work aswell.

So lets restart :D

How many NON 900 duties does stagecoach have, and how many coaches will be going spare, Bus times used to list all the Citylink coaches on Stagecoach West and East Scotland, but that seems to have changes.
 

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Thank you, Going by that Perth is losing its work aswell.

So lets restart :D

How many NON 900 duties does stagecoach have, and how many coaches will be going spare, Bus times used to list all the Citylink coaches on Stagecoach West and East Scotland, but that seems to have changes.
This was communicated to staff based at Cumbernauld, not Perth.
 

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This was communicated to staff based at Cumbernauld, not Perth.
That clears that up, thank you.

Mind you how does Cumbernauld lose money on Saltire work yet Perth doing the same work isn't lose money?

How many non 900 duties does Cumbernauld have? Can anyone say?
 

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Thank you for that, sounds like they want be that many space coaches looking for a new home.
 

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Does anyone ever recall Citylink operating the X74 Dumfries to Glasgow as their own 974 service, something in the back of my head tells me it was the late 90's or early 00's and I'm sure I saw a Citylink bus with Dumfries and 974 on it in Glasgow, the reason i ask is with everything that is happening at Stagecoach do you think this could happen again as the X74 is now a kind of odd one out service for them now that it has vacated the Dumfries and Galloway area and could be a better fit for Citylink now unless is is still making profit for Stagecoach?
 

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Very much so. Dumfries depot had two busses in Citylink livery R105 LSO & N144 XSA. That thought also popped into my head if the changes were to happen the 974 instead of the X74. Makes me wonder if the rumours are true what will happen to Eastfield Road site. West Coast Motors taking this over. Sell it for houses. A bothy somewhere around Dumfries Whitesands. Who would have thought 12 months ago no stagecoach presence in Dumfries.

 
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Stan Drews

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Very much so. Dumfries depot had two busses in Citylink livery R105 LSO & N144 XSA. That thought also popped into my head if the changes were to happen the 974 instead of the X74. Makes me wonder if the rumours are true what will happen to Eastfield Road site. West Coast Motors taking this over. Sell it for houses. A bothy somewhere around Dumfries Whitesands. Who would have thought 12 months ago no stagecoach presence in Dumfries.

The route was shared with Thornliebank depot during the Citylink era in the 80s. Seddon T Types were common, or if you were lucky one of the Volvo B10Ms!
 

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Very much so. Dumfries depot had two busses in Citylink livery R105 LSO & N144 XSA. That thought also popped into my head if the changes were to happen the 974 instead of the X74. Makes me wonder if the rumours are true what will happen to Eastfield Road site. West Coast Motors taking this over. Sell it for houses. A bothy somewhere around Dumfries Whitesands. Who would have thought 12 months ago no stagecoach presence in Dumfries.

Yes I thought so, thanks for confirming. Isn't Dumfries depot still being used to stable 2 or 3 buses overnight for the X74, so they would need to find somewhere else for them. I do see Stranraer depot is listed for sale here https://www.loopnet.co.uk/listing/lewis-street-stranraer/39132814/
 
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Very much so. Dumfries depot had two busses in Citylink livery R105 LSO & N144 XSA. That thought also popped into my head if the changes were to happen the 974 instead of the X74. Makes me wonder if the rumours are true what will happen to Eastfield Road site. West Coast Motors taking this over. Sell it for houses. A bothy somewhere around Dumfries Whitesands. Who would have thought 12 months ago no stagecoach presence in Dumfries.

Stagecoach will still have a presence the 79 still serves Dumfries from Carlisle
 

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