First Manchester

[Mayneway]

RE: First Manchester

(24/09/2014 19:10)james Wrote:  [quote='Mayneway' pid='63489' dateline='1411583002']
First Pyoneer up to thier old tricks again this morning. The 419 at 10.15 heading towards Ashton passed me 'not in service' with a good load of passengers on board only to pull up outside the Hop Pole pub for about 5 mins before miraculously going back into service then setting off towards the bus station. It was clearly not late as it spent a good 5 mins plus on the stand before setting off.
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it would either be 15+ late or 15 early. late sounds right as a lot of new drivers at pr atm he may not have known where his/her next service dep from so would have stopped and rang the depot cont to confirm what to do . it should have changed on to 10.10 or 10.40 339

Dosen't explain why the driver sat outside the hop pole pub for a good 5 minutes then suddenly '419 Ashton' reapearred on the destination and he set off into the bus station. I'm not daft, it was a clear case of he's running a through minutes late/early lets go not in service.

Dentonian no I haven't but I very much doubt anything will be done about it. It's the third time I've seen this happen. Surly if a service is registered to run it should run whether it's late or not. It seems a very poor practice if First are telling drivers to go not in service because thier a few mins late.