Stagecoach Manchester

[mbonwick]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester

(01/11/2012 00:00)gilesbus1 Wrote:  Optare Excels are expected to be withdrawn after December but the likely replacements will be MAN's stored at Manchester. Arrows might hit the dust later although this is more suggestive than factual when Stagecoach Manchester gets some 02 plate Tridenst for Magic that will free up existing Low Floor Magics that could mean these get repainted to nornmal livery and moved to Wigan, likely those that are Highbridge and none standard and from independent take-overs.

I would love to know where these 02 plate Tridents are coming from, seeing at Manchester don't have any, and there aren't any spare elsewhere....
Personally I think we're more likely to see the 06 plate Enviro400s move to Wigan when the E400Hs turn up.

I can also see Stagecoach requesting Volvo Olympians to be swapped with Arrows at Wigan, just to get some standardisation.

I agree that the Excels won't have long - I can quite easily see the MY&SL reserve B10BLEs going over as well, either to replace B10BLEs there already or replace the Excels.