Express Airport Transfers (Europe) Ltd and The Skiers Lodge Ltd t/a Easybus

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RE: Express Airport Transfers (Europe) Ltd and The Skiers Lodge Ltd t/a Easybus
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A significant development in the easyCoach story is that published in N&P dated yesterday (16th August) is:-

Section 2.7 - Applications Withdrawn Prior to Determination
PG2012783 SI - TSL ( WALES) LIMITED
Director(s): Andrew Martin

The current services are of course still registered to the company The Skiers Lodge Limited (TSL) with Operating Centres in Shrewsbury [9 vehicles] and Gledrid Truck Stop [7 vehicles] (at the end of the Chirk ByPass).

On Monday of this week (and for a period of 3 weeks) most bus services running south of Wrexham are affected by road works in Ruabon which has shut the main road through the village. Arriva are dealing with this (for the Oswestry, Cefn Mawr and Llangollen services) by diverting from Croesfoel along the A483 bypass and then coming into Ruabon from the side of the Wynnstay Hotel. The exception being for the 2B service which is only operating a short service into Ruabon village via Johnstown. easyCoach have chosen a different diversion whereby they go through Pentre Bychan and Johnstown and when arriving into Ruabon go through the housing estate down New Hall Road to the bypass and then leave the by-pass going straight towards Plas Madoc.

Arriva were observed to be able to keep to the timetable for buses leaving Wrexham whereas easyCoach were rarely able to do this. Again one bus appeared to be missing from the required compliment of four and unusually the three buses involved were interworking between the 2 and 2D resulting in a number of random missed journeys on both services.
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