First Manchester

[gilesbus1]

RE: First Manchester
It doesn't suprise me if Wigan is up fors ale as I first heard it a few months ago from one company internal source and I've heard again from another internal source at the other end of company, what was more interesting is one source also said Bolton may go with Wigan if a single buyer cannot be found for Wigan.

Apparently the new garage was a senior mistake and shouldn't have been bought.

All the area's seem fair disposals to me. The most likely buyers for Wigan would be RATP as it bolts onto its Metrolink operation plus its keenest to expand in the UK.

Other parties might be Rotala.

The other suggestion was that came out, was that Operations might be removed from Wigan and go to Bolton, namely all the services in the Leigh and Bolton Area's leaving Wigan depot with only local services in Wigan itself and making the depot unprofitable.