First Manchester

[thomasl1231]

RE: First Manchester

(17/06/2012 10:25)bolton bus basher Wrote:  well there was one on the 93 so quessing its a bury route?

Bury must have one on 'loan' or whatever then. :P

[T42 PVM (Moderator)]

RE: First Manchester
for some reason bury seems to have loads of the old step deckers, why is this?

[Damien]

RE: First Manchester

(17/06/2012 10:25)bolton bus basher Wrote:  well there was one on the 93 so quessing its a bury route?

93 is operated by Bury Depot always has apart from a long time ago, when Queens Road and Bury did it, they probably have a loan arrow from Bolton.


I know B9 37392 is loaned to Bolton for repaint cover this week

[Damien]

RE: First Manchester

(17/06/2012 10:27)bolton bus basher Wrote:  for some reason bury seems to have loads of the old step deckers, why is this?

Might have something to do with the idea o withdrawing 34028,29,33 and 34069,70 and 34294 and 34291 to replace these buses, they brought in buses from Oldham 30802,3,4,5,6 only a couple weeks after they re instated 34028 34291 34294. So Bury now has a lot of old step deckers. All being dumped at Bury lol

[T42 PVM (Moderator)]

RE: First Manchester
lol in my eyes its great as most of them are in great condition

[Damien]

RE: First Manchester

(17/06/2012 10:16)thomasl1231 Wrote:  

(16/06/2012 22:20)Damien Wrote:  

(16/06/2012 22:11)thomasl1231 Wrote:  I saw all of these too! I had a nice ride on 31921 on the 572 to go and visit the Bolton depot lol, quality vehicles! :P

Yep me as well, as my girlfriend lives in Great Lever although 512 and 513 and 571 get you to Bolton Depot quicker, 572 goes all round great lever lol:P

Haha I know, I just wanted to get on it because it was an Arrow! :P I was gonna stay on for the full route because it's only a quick one isn't it, but I thought that I'd see what was going on at the depot whilst I was there lol. Nothing looks like its changed! Does anyone know where 31935 R435ULE went after it had accident damage or whatever? It just seems to have vanished off the face of the Earth along with 31925 P425PVW lol! :O

Don't blame you Thomas I do the same thing lol:P

[Damien]

RE: First Manchester

(17/06/2012 10:16)thomasl1231 Wrote:  

(16/06/2012 22:20)Damien Wrote:  

(16/06/2012 22:11)thomasl1231 Wrote:  I saw all of these too! I had a nice ride on 31921 on the 572 to go and visit the Bolton depot lol, quality vehicles! :P

Yep me as well, as my girlfriend lives in Great Lever although 512 and 513 and 571 get you to Bolton Depot quicker, 572 goes all round great lever lol:P

Haha I know, I just wanted to get on it because it was an Arrow! :P I was gonna stay on for the full route because it's only a quick one isn't it, but I thought that I'd see what was going on at the depot whilst I was there lol. Nothing looks like its changed! Does anyone know where 31935 R435ULE went after it had accident damage or whatever? It just seems to have vanished off the face of the Earth along with 31925 P425PVW lol! :O

Don't blame you Thomas I do the same thing lol:P

[mic]

RE: First Manchester
only 1 change this week and that is that 60158 has been withdrawn

[mic]

RE: First Manchester

(17/06/2012 10:22)thomasl1231 Wrote:  

(17/06/2012 10:19)bolton bus basher Wrote:  one of the burys lot was out, i thought all arrows was withdrawn anyway?

Nope there's loads of them still in service, with many of the R-reg ones having 2013 tax disks now! :P

From what I've seen, it's a bit like this:

31929, 31936, 31943 - Ashton.
31917, 31918, 31919, 31920, 31921, 31922, 31924 - Bolton.
31939, 31948, 31952 - Oldham.
30586, 31903, 31923, 31926, 31928, 31930, 31932, 31934, 31938, 31941, 31946, 31947 - Wigan.

that is correct

withdrawn stock is

30584, 31937, 31942, 31945, 31949, 31953 at Wigan
31933, 31951 at Oldham
31927, 31940, 31944, 31950, 31954 at Bolton

31925, 31935 unknown

[P528LND]

RE: First Manchester
Noticed a LOOK branded QS B9TL leave Oldham Way and head down Ashton Road as if coming from Oldham's Depot and going to Manchester... Hmm. This was around half-past 2 on Friday by the way. Anyone know anything about this?