Stagecoach Manchester

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RE: Stagecoach Manchester

(10/02/2014 20:56)Mayneway Wrote:  

(10/02/2014 16:16)joe_alker Wrote:  

(09/02/2014 19:48)ace Wrote:  Thanks for that.
I think there is one trident remaining at Ashton, 17670. It was on the 216 yesterday.
A good few 57 reg's have transferred from Hyde Road to Ashton in the last few days, releasing some of the 56 reg's for cascade. I'm sure we'll all be very sad to see them go

17670 is active nearly every day on the 231 and school services. All pre-09 Enviro400s are crap, end of.

The 08 Enviro400's at AZ are a huge improvement on the older ones but having said that AZ have a habbit of running half decent buses into the ground so no doubt in the next 12 months or so the newer Enviro400's will sound as bad as the 56 and 07 reg ones

It seems to be a bit of a pattern. Hyde Road keep them for 5 years or so, then they get moved to Ashton for a year before being cascaded. Some of the Hyde Road drivers are a bit heavy footed though, which probably explains why the buses are on their last legs by the time they arrive at Ashton.