First Manchester

[james]

RE: First Manchester

(20/06/2013 00:09)Mayneway Wrote:  

(19/06/2013 13:23)james Wrote:  

(19/06/2013 09:09)Mayneway Wrote:  They use Hybrid Solo's/Versa's on the 168 and occasionally normal Solo's so doubt they would switch to something bigger.
Oldham operate a large number of schools in the droylsden area, could it be for that?

mayneway you are correct the Enviro300 was from om trying a school route variation that may happen in sept. pioneer arent down for any of this batch of Enviro300s but may get some of the junk it replaces. i was at om when they came back in with it as the schools ops mgr was sat at the front telling the driver the poss new route

I can see a few people being bemused at that in September. Droylsden academy students going from T reg Olympians in July too brand new Enviro300's in September , although going back a few years it always amazed me when I was at school that Mayne's used their brand new (then) Tridents on schools. They got trashed.

James what's the crack with the Hybrids in Ashton at the moment. The 41 is often worked with 1 or sometimes 2 regular Solo's and the 419 often has at 1 regular Solo on it, are they off the road or working somewhere else?

no the Enviro400 was out on a test run but the school ops mgr wanted to play (like a big kid with a new toy) or as he said kill 2 birds with one stone

easy answer is all maintainence on the hybrids is done at (optare,?)blackburn and we dont have a spare hybrid, the 41/419 are newer contracts and the stipulation of the stockport tenders is we get more earache is a normal bus goes on them (i.e 380/1/6) so the allocator nicks em of the 41`s normally if 2 are vor then we have trouble i belive 2 versa`s are at blackburn yesterday or were going