National Express UK Expansion:

[Mrboo]

RE: National Express UK Expansion:
When I worked for Megabus back in 2014
Hyde Road had 1 coach over night that would do first Trip to Newcastle and did the last return. They would also supply all drivers on Newcastle to Birmingham route. with Rugby doing Birmingham to Leeds runs and hyde road did do some Manchester to watford gap when Preston drivers did not take over from Scottish drivers. But that not the case anymore as MP Travel now run Manchester office for Stagecoach and also do London trips with far less drivers now from Hyde Road.

Both NX and Megabus now use 3rd party's to run their services with NX now taking more inhouse. it used to be Stagecoach did most of their runs apart from 1 route and a few weekend services. at Leeds used to have Tetleys doing 1 run to London on Fri and Sun and compass Royston did 1 from Newcastle to London

the interdecks was got due to a Brian Souter owning share in Plaxton and was cheaper then the Van Hool they used before and the Van Hool had issues with them having to have smaller fuel tanks fitted in end as 90 seats on them with 20kg bag limit pushed them over there limit so for short time they had to undersell the coaches until they got the smaller tanks fitted . the interdecks had I think it was 75 seats and the Plaxton B12a they replaced was 65 seats they also had a few B9s 49 seats for euro routes but did not stay long on megabus

of Late NX have been taking lots in House