(30/12/2016 21:32)Solo40336 Wrote:  19221 and 19227 today. Yesterday had 19393 and 19465. Most depots except for Middleton have a heavily reduced PVR so can cover spare Buses for Middleton, using that opportunity for Middleton to get some of the big jobs done on a few Deckers.

• Service 32 is withdrawn with the Wigan-Belle Green section served by service 634.
• Service 38 is curtailed to run between Logistics North and Manchester Piccadilly Gardens only.
• Full Monday-Saturday daytime service introduced on service 42A between Reddish and Manchester, partly replacing service 84, which is withdrawn. Saturday service between Reddish and East Didsbury increased to half-hourly
• Service 42B replaces service X57, serving all stops between Woodford and Manchester. 42B also partly replaces service 145, which is also withdrawn.
• Service 42 will be reduced between Stockport and Manchester to half-hourly Mon-Sat daytime and hourly Sunday daytime.
• Services 74/75 in Salford no longer operated by Stagecoach.
• Service 85A is extended to Arrowfield Road, partly replacing service 84.
• Services 101, 104, 105 and 109 are re-routed back via Gloucester Street heading out of Manchester
• Service X34 no longer serving East Lancs Park & Ride site but will stop outside on East Lancs Road.
  

• Service 86 is curtailed to run half-hourly between Manchester and Sale only
• Journeys after 0100 on service 192 reduced to every 15 minutes.
• The last journey each way on service 201 is withdrawn
• Service 216 is curtailed to run hourly
  

• Weekday daytime: 7, 15, 34/X34, 38, 42, 42A, 43, 50, 85/85A, 101, 104, 111, 168, 169, 191, 197, 201, 204, 205, 206, 221, 231, 236/237, 255, 256, 347, X50
• Saturday daytime: 7, 34/X34, 38, 42, 42A, 50, 85/85A, 101, 104, 105, 109, 111, 168, 169, 192, 204, 205, 236/237, 330
• Sunday daytime: 38, 42, 42A, 85, 101, 104, 111, 168, 169, 192,
• Monday-Saturday evenings: 38, 42, 76, 86/86N, 111, 168, 169, 192/192N, 201/201N, 205, 216/216N, 219/219N (Saturdays only),
• Sunday evenings: 38, 42, 111, 168, 169, 203
  

(06/01/2017 21:34)gilbert Wrote:  What is the reasoning behind the change of number from X57 to 42B?

(06/01/2017 22:17)Raawwwrrr! Wrote:  Because the service is no longer limited stop and follows the 42 route Piccadilly to Parrs Wood

(07/01/2017 11:07)Redmikey Wrote:  https://tiscon-maps-stagecoachbus.s3.amazonaws.com/ZoneMaps/Manchester/MAN_Stockport_Network_Map_20170129.pdf

Interesting to see this Stagecoach Network map among the list of changes.

(07/01/2017 20:21)Dentonian Wrote:  The E29/E30 became 129/130 in SELNEC or GMT days, with the 130 continuing today (run by Arriva, of course) with presumably some minor route tweakings. I think the 152 was peak only, an early example of such a service to disappear as mass unemployment coincided with de-regulation to decimate such peak hour services.