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RE: First Manchester

(25/08/2013 06:14)M60lad Wrote:  Seems the Royales are having their final swansong at Bury at the moment and are getting allocated to whatever route the vehicle allocator fancies as one was out all day yesterday on 135, also 30880 seems to be quite reliable at the moment and yesterday was out again on 163s, also one of the remaining XDZ's (not to sure which one sorry) was out on 471s.

Parked up on layover in Bolton yesterday afternoon was 34105, not sure what service it was on or whether it was just parked up as a spare bus

Most recently 34104 and 5 have been on the 519s daily in Bolton, id guess the remaining XDZ would be 31814 maybe. 30880 does indeed seem to be very reliable in the last few days its been on 471,474,510,162,163,524. Its holding its own considering the bad press these buses have received on moving from First South Yorkshire.

It will be interesting to see more in service with 30873,30879, and latest 30872 and 30877 i hope these prove to be as reliable as 30880 only time will tell, when the full 10 arrive at Bury Depot.