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RE: Go North West - FLEETNEWS ONLY - NO STRIKE TALK!

(16/03/2021 06:58)M60lad Wrote:  I thought the problem with deckers on 52 now was the fact the way the duties worked now was that at some point during the day a short would end up interworking with a long to Trafford Centre.

From what I've seen online recently though it seems that when Tyrers were doing 52 they were using Deckers regularly, not to sure whether these deckers were also used on the longs to Trafford Centre though and that's despite Tyrers being another operator being strict as to where a dobule decker can go.

Going back to 415s and showing my age back when I was younger GMBuses had no problem using various Leyland Nationals on the route with various size of pods on them, there was also a rumour once over that a Citaro made it onto 415 but I don't actually believe it myself, the only other type that I can remember being used on 415 was one of the Wright Renown B10BLEs.

Think they tried one of the normal Enviro200’s with pods and it just made it under but it was tight, so was decided just to use buses without the pods.

I think the problem for Tyrers on the 52 was they didn’t have enough single deckers to use so used deckers but they ran the full route using Patchicroft bridge (100 route) in and out from Trafford centre.