Stagecoach Manchester and Wigan

[ant17612]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester and Wigan

(11/06/2020 14:30)ant17612 Wrote:  12201 is now in the new Magic Bus Livery;
https://www.flickr.com/photos/78430754@N05/49992407746

12188 has also been done.

[Mrboo]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester and Wigan

(17/06/2020 00:19)ant17612 Wrote:  12188 has also been done.

And not a word on the bus saying Magic bus

[gilbert]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester and Wigan

(16/06/2020 20:21)ant17612 Wrote:  11255 hasn't gone anywhere its just not reporting/ reporting as something else on Bus Times. It has often been mentioned across numerous threads on this site that the tracking data is not always 100% accurate.

11510 and 11513 have not been shown on Bus Times at all. I saw the latter outside Sainsburys Hazel Grove on the 192 about 1530hrs today heading towards the terminus

[ant17612]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester and Wigan

(17/06/2020 15:39)gilbert Wrote:  11510 and 11513 have not been shown on Bus Times at all. I saw the latter outside Sainsburys Hazel Grove on the 192 about 1530hrs today heading towards the terminus

They'll be using old ticket machines.

[djb]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester and Wigan
There seems to be a lot of journeys on the 309/310 using bigger buses unsuitable for demmings road at the moment (so they are turning at cheadle Royal). Anyone know if this is for social distancing or lack of minibuses?

[ant17612]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester and Wigan
19231 has been repainted in the new colours. 12189 is the next one been done in the new magic livery. New MMC's taxed recently are 11519 and 11522.

[Mayneway]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester and Wigan

(17/06/2020 17:45)djb Wrote:  There seems to be a lot of journeys on the 309/310 using bigger buses unsuitable for demmings road at the moment (so they are turning at cheadle Royal). Anyone know if this is for social distancing or lack of minibuses?

Went past Daw Bank tonight and were several Solos parked up and the rear yard looked full of Enviro200’s so it’s either for social distancing or it interworks with something requiring a decker.

[Mrboo]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester and Wigan
Not worth sending out a solo 100% way to lose money

[djb]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester and Wigan

(19/06/2020 23:23)Mayneway Wrote:  Went past Daw Bank tonight and were several Solos parked up and the rear yard looked full of Enviro200’s so it’s either for social distancing or it interworks with something requiring a decker.

The enviros are too big for the route as well (apart from gg56 blu).

I’m presuming it’s for distancing as according to bustimes there’s enough solos on the route, they are just parking up for half the day then doing random journies. The other journies oddly aren’t showing as running even though they are, with longer saloons or deckers.

[M60lad]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester and Wigan
Yesterday apart from GG56BLU it was Solos that were on 309/10 but other older Enviro200s were few and very far between with most of the fleet of them parked up in the yard outside Daw Bank Depot.

As for the new MMC400s apart from the usual 192s I spotted them out on the following routes:

11A Stockport-Altrincham
328 Stockport-Bridge Hall Circular
X30 Stockport-Manchester Airport Express.

It seems Stockport Depot is another Depot to recieve a batch of Magicbuses whether loans or permanent transfer I'm not to sure and quite a few were out yesterday on various services.