Diamond Bus North West

[Mayneway]

RE: Diamond Bus North West

(20/12/2021 06:53)M60lad Wrote:  On doing some research on Bus Times it seems to have been 21203 that caught fire near Trafford Centre last night apparently it was running dead from Eccles to operate 247 service and looking on Bus Times and if its right the rest of the duty last night that it should have been on failed to operate with only one bus tracking on 247, I'm guessing if Bus Times is right Eccles didn't have a spare bus/driver to operate the duty which could be odd being a Sunday.

I wonder whether anything will be brought in to replace it as apparently Eccles are short of vehicles at the moment anyway as a couple of their TfGM Hybrids are currently off the road and have been for a while now as Solos and Enviro200s have been replacing them on 18 Eccles-Manchester Airport service recently.

The question will be will there be an investigation into how it caught fire and will the remaining Mellors at Eccles be checked over to make sure the same thing doesn't happen again?

They can’t be that short at Eccles as they have a bus parked in Eccles most of the day every day for drivers to have their break on. It was last week mostly a Mellor merc minibus.
From the video it looks like it started either on or under the bus rather than under the bonnet as the bonnet looked to be the only part of the bus still intact and recognisable.