Stagecoach Manchester

[Mayneway]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester

(14/09/2014 07:39)BHA Wrote:  As an aside I was in Skye last week - brilliant weather - and saw several originally Manchester Volvo B10M?Alexander still giving sterling service a long time after they left Manchester. Among them were 20947 in Fort William, 20925 and 20957 in Inverness and 20920/22/26 and 20946 in Portree. Rode 20946 on the Portree local 54 - definitely a rattler but still with a useful turn of acceleration and speed.

Cracking buses and sadly missed in Manchester. Dare I say it them, the older MANs and the first batch of Tridents were, and still are proper buses built to last and Stagecoach have certainly had their monies worth out of them. I think the only think that went against the B10Ms was thier high floors - otherwise they would still be here in force.
When you consider the first batch of Enviro400's and the condition they were in when they began to be cascaded, with very noisy lower deck and cheap plastic interiors there's just no comparison.