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RE: Vision Bus - Metroline1511 - 26/11/2023 10:26
Despite franchising in Bolton, Vision Bus still run route 480. Maybe it is included in the stage 2 franchise, along with their route 94?
RE: Vision Bus - 60301 - 27/11/2023 03:42
(26/11/2023 10:26)Metroline1511 Wrote: Despite franchising in Bolton, Vision Bus still run route 480. Maybe it is included in the stage 2 franchise, along with their route 94?
Correct. It is decided by the registered origin of the route. The 480 is a Bury route (I.E is registered as Bury-Bolton. Bury to Bolton is the outbound trip, with a round trip running Bury-Bolton-Bury as oppose to Bolton-Bury-Bolton), so is included in Tranche 2.
In the same way, the 37 is a Bolton route (Bolton-Piccadilly-Bolton) so is in Tranche 1, but the 38 is a Manchester (Tranche 3) route as it runs Piccadilly-Logistics North-Piccadilly.
Vision Bus will lose both the 480 and the 94 Bury routes in March when the Tranche 2 franchise starts. They will then have no general service routes in Greater Manchester. They will still have the Bee Network School franchise that they started operating in September and will still run these from Blackrod depot (which will also remain the registered business address). They will also, of course, still operate the service routes in Burnley/Nelson/Colne/Preston from the yard they rent in Accrington, with management, admin and maintenance being done at Blackrod.
This includes the route 64 which they have recently taken over to add to the 113 and the former Transdev Ribble Country routes that they took over earlier this year.
RE: Vision Bus - NathanR - 08/01/2026 01:14
Article on the BBC (as well as a post on Twitter) about an incident involving three high school pupils falling through a window of the top deck of one of Visions vehicles yesterday evening.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9qpj275ldlo
https://x.com/Claire_journo/status/2009026024185659861
Hopefully all involved recover from this awful incident.
RE: Vision Bus - T42 PVM - 08/01/2026 10:50
Saw this Video on TikTok of the investigation, The entire Window including the seal has come away
https://www.tiktok.com/@whats.happening.wigan/video/7592699900450622742?_r=1&_t=ZN-92tcbxLuBd8
RE: Vision Bus - Mrboo - Yesterday 23:11
I see that andy gone on record to say it was not a Bee Network branded service. but it is a bee network service and is fully open to the public with all bee network sold and taken. Just happens to not need to be painted yellow as they only need it for 2 trips a day 5 days a week.