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RE: First Manchester

(18/06/2012 19:16)WWH44L Wrote:  

(18/06/2012 18:48)FirstGroup Wrote:  

(18/06/2012 18:23)gemini6491 Wrote:  Well it can't have been to great an increase for them to reduce it to an hourly service? And I'm sure First will have worked out allocations and movements etc to make the services work. Certainly B10BLE's would be at home on the 25/26.

The busiest part of the route is between Leigh and Tyldesley, and Swinton and Manchester, areas where an every half frequency will be sustained, also quite a lot of custom between Manchester and Tyldesley/Atherton/Leigh road, gain where an half hour frequency will be kept WN seem to a good job on its services through Tyldesley, Astley and Atherton though i'd say, 32 and X34 reliable services usually with good buses, unlike the 600, hopefully some B7RLE'S from BN or QS will be transferred for the 12/25/26/600 if they operate it that is.

Also after praising BN, very poor effort yesterday that the 36 (B7RLE) left Manchester, all seats full with 2 sat in the luggage rack and one person stood up, the driver felt the need to put 'not in service' on the front and even when the bus went half empty, he still kept it as Not In Service..... Plenty of people were waiting for it on route too!

I don't think there will be any movements of routes or buses with each depot keeping to what they do now except QS will do the 25. I am also presuming that 37301s repaint is down to the fact that all BNs B9s are to be done over the next few months.

Got to give BN a bit of slack at the moment as they are obviously short of B9s whilst they are in for repaint as loans are tending to be B7RLEs.

It would be odd QS running the 25, as it is running from piccadilly, QS routes tend to go from Shudehill as this is where there drivers change, the only reason the 33 doesn't serve shudehill is because of its route in manchester, the 25 could easily go to shudehill without doing a stupid route round the city centre, anyway thats why I think QS won't run it, I still imagine BN will run it, they will use the B7RLE's off the 12 journeys that have been withdrawn, seems the most logical option and BN tend to run in Leigh - Atherton, and Walkden/Swinton to Manchester sections.
WN have the East Lancs section and the QS just had the one odd route through Swinton, Boothstown and Leigh...