Stagecoach Manchester and Wigan

[M60lad]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester
Stagecoach Manchester did well yesterday providing buses to the Parklife Concert at Heaton Park and most if not all buses were running throughout the afternoon with close to full loads, there must have been at least 10-15 or maybe more Stagecoach Manchester vehicles in use on the shuttle all from various depots also unusually on a Saturday all 3 of Middleton Depot's double deckers were out inn service, with the red Student-Link B7 on 80/112s and the 2 Magicbus Olympians operating on Parklife Service

Regarding the Parklife Concert during the afternoon I noticed about 4 Ashton Depot buses parked up near Rhodes Golf Course in Middleton while the drivers had their breaks.

The route Stagecoach are taking btw from Miller Street-Heaton Park is up Rochdale Road as far as M60 then onto M60 for one junction and off at Heaton Park Junction then down Middleton Road before turning right at Tramway Gates into Heaton Park where they were dropping people off

Interesting working on 101 last night was the sighting of a MAN on one of the journeys operating I think 18:32 Wythenshawe-Manchester service obviously due to a shortage of deckers caused by the Parklife Concert at Heaton Park

If anybody wants a good vantage point to see all the Parklife services then the best place obviously is in Heaton Park itself and also for the services from Manchester anywhere on Miller Street as there's good line up of buses that wait there awaiting passengers