GHA Group (Bryn Melyn, Vale Travel + Others)

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RE: GHA Group (Bryn Melyn, Vale Travel + Others)

(10/02/2016 11:19)knutstransport Wrote:  Meanwhile Network Warrington are changing the route and times of their Northwich to Warrington services again:
PC0001977/61 - WARRINGTON BOROUGH TRANSPORT LTD T/A NETWORK WARRINGTON, WILDERSPOOL CAUSEWAY, WARRINGTON, WA4 6PT
Variation Accepted: Operating between Warrington (Interchange) and Northwich (Watting Street ) given service number 45/46 effective from 04-Apr-2016. To amend Route, Stopping Places and Timetable.

Since Network Warrington doesn't seem to be varying their 5/35 or 6 services at the same time (not that we know of yet anyway), their Northwich runs are likely either to continue departing Warrington at the same time or to depart 30 minutes earlier/later, and the same goes for arriving back in Warrington.
If this is a chop of 30 minutes off the route, likely to involve the removal of the Northwich to Higher Wincham section of the 46's route, then the variations would all make sense, as then the 8 and 10C would no longer interwork (in order for the 5/35/6/8/46 to continue to provide a service every 10 minutes to Stockton Heath), and this would then have knock-on effects on the 11's and 12's so that they and the 10C continue to provide a half-hourly service to Lower Walton in both directions.

(I'm replying on this thread for the sake of continuity. Perhaps it might be best to create a new thread relating specifically to the GHA / NW bus wars, as we keep talking about this subject with relation to one company then the other on either one of the two threads almost at random. Having said that, it might be quite a job sifting through old posts on both companies' threads to decide which of them should go in the new thread, if that would be necessary ... Any thoughts?)