Stagecoach MCSL - Gillmoss Depot

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RE: Stagecoach Merseyside - Gillmoss Depot

(27/06/2012 20:24)CX54 DKD Wrote:  

(27/06/2012 20:21)bolton bus basher Wrote:  i was told the reason stagecoach pulled out was down to the fact the driver that was always on there retired, i take it what i been told is bull?

I believe that chap (who'd done the 319 for years and years) was indeed retiring but I highly doubt that was the reason as there was another regular driver who did the route a few days a week who was at most in his early thirties. The reason they pulled out was that the service stopped being profitable for them.

The thing which killed the route for Stagecoach was when Fairway brought the 39 journeys out from St Helens at 0730 and 0830 with the 0730 thus competing with Stagecoach for student custom. There was also at one point duplication with both Stagecoach and Fairway both running journeys at 1245 from Southport (I can remember being in Ormskirk and Stagecoach came in and the driver had said that the white bus (meaning Fairway) had missed out the Bus Station).