First Manchester

[Damien]

RE: First Manchester

(10/08/2012 17:17)SF07 Wrote:  

(10/08/2012 01:05)Damien Wrote:  

(10/08/2012 00:59)P528LND Wrote:  Will X401CSG be painted and branded for the 135?

A very reliable source tells that First are looking to make changes to the allocations for the 135 and 471, in other words. Currently deciding wheather to switch the entire scania omni city fleet 12001/18 to the 471 full time. The reason being to free up the city centre. 10017 is most likely going to be painted up and maybe 135 maybe 471?. At the moment though said bus has been sat idle in Bury Depot for a few days.

I would assume, that If first at Bury decide to switch allocations, then its most likely B9s will be the regular allocation/normal sightings on this.

135 had a B9TL on the route this afternoon in the new livery (37298), although it had Manchester Corporation Street on the front rather than Manchester Piccadilly.

Interesting situation with the repaints at Bury, 37296,98,99 done, something tells me 37297 won't be done yet, as they have got to fix it first and keep it running, poor thing is struggling



In other news just had 31919 on the 572 talk about knackered gear box one gear all round that route, took ages.. Withdraw it now if it was up to me, but sadly it's not