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RE: GHA Group (Bryn Melyn, Vale Travel + Others) - YN05 WKE - 16/07/2016 09:06
(16/07/2016 09:00)knutstransport Wrote: If it's any help the maximum return fare GHA charged on Cheshire routes was £5, which was the same price as their day ticket. Their single fares were all over the place though, I think they just had a random number generator to create them!Some of there fares made no sence tbh think it be better for each operator to use there own fare structure
RE: GHA Group (Bryn Melyn, Vale Travel + Others) - knutstransport - 16/07/2016 09:21
It doesn't look like they'll be a 27 Saturday service. Apparently Cheshire East claim they have no money to subside the 27 (despite classing it as an essential service a few years ago) and High Peak are only willing to run a Mon-Fri service commercially.
RE: GHA Group (Bryn Melyn, Vale Travel + Others) - St Helens Rider - 16/07/2016 09:25
The Fifty Shades of GHA:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cJiGkBrcbw
Credit: video47.
A video tribute to GHA taken over the last 2 years - very interesting.
RE: GHA Group (Bryn Melyn, Vale Travel + Others) - YN05 WKE - 16/07/2016 09:59
https://www.stagecoachbus.com/routes/mer...xkao036.o#
Full 36 info on stagecoach site
https://www.stagecoachbus.com/timetable-...=XKAO006.O
Full 6 timetable info on stagecoach site
I notice nothing on website or twitter regarding SP1/2 i wonder if were not keeping the service
RE: GHA Group (Bryn Melyn, Vale Travel + Others) - knutstransport - 16/07/2016 10:01
(16/07/2016 06:55)Mayneway Wrote: Apparently some drivers are angry because days earlier there was speculation on social media that the company had asked local authorities to arrange replacement operators for services they ran on their behalf, but management were quick to dismiss the specualtion.
Why's that not a surprise?
They dismissed the rumour that the Scanias were repossessed and claimed the lease had ended, despite recently repainting the Scanias in the new GHA livery - not something you do if you have any sense if the lease is due to expire and you are certain it'll be renewed.
They also claimed they didn't get third party funding for the wifi on the GHA Gold services and funded it themselves, when they did get third party funding.
RE: GHA Group (Bryn Melyn, Vale Travel + Others) - 33109 - 16/07/2016 10:52
Have stagecoach released anything yet about the 130 services? Not seen anything on their website as of yet.
They'll need to be driver training hopefully atm if they plan to start running services tomorrow. After all furthest out i've ever seen a stagecoach bus is wilmslow so theirs drivers won't know the route!
RE: GHA Group (Bryn Melyn, Vale Travel + Others) - Garsty - 16/07/2016 10:53
Might see some GHA vehicles on the road today as apparently the administrators are getting them all centralized down in Ruabon from the other depots and outstations.
RE: GHA Group (Bryn Melyn, Vale Travel + Others) - Barney - 16/07/2016 11:03
From what I gather GHA's operations were a mixture of commercial and tendered. Not being familiar with its operations, I wonder how many of its commercial services are likely to be permanently adopted by the larger operators such as Arriva and Stagecoach?
RE: GHA Group (Bryn Melyn, Vale Travel + Others) - knutstransport - 16/07/2016 11:07
(16/07/2016 11:03)Barney Wrote: From what I gather GHA's operations were a mixture of commercial and tendered. Not being familiar with its operations, I wonder how many of its commercial services are likely to be permanently adopted by the larger operators such as Arriva and Stagecoach?
Not many I imagine.
The 82 route was one Arriva gave up due to it not making them enough money.
The 300 weekday daytime service in Knutsford is operated commercially by D&G Bus, with a bus being sent from a depot in Crewe to run it. Arriva (who used to have the route operated from the Winsford depot) decided the 300 weekday daytime service wasn't viable to run commercially.
RE: GHA Group (Bryn Melyn, Vale Travel + Others) - Mayneway - 16/07/2016 11:16
Does anyone have a link to the final full GHA fleetlist?