I'm on the 231 that we do through the day. Only one bus but it's such a relaxing change to come up the new road from town without having to worry about keeping time. On the way down i even had 3 minutes to spare at aldi. The back half of the duty is just as easy. 2 trips on a 330. Made better as the bus comes off the 346 so its going to be a MAN. I prefer them on the 330s. Nice too to see the lights back at bank street. I had missed them so much lol. I got given a great brochure on the opening of the old tameside depot today so i'll scan it tomorrow and post it so you can all have a look. Also found out today we have bought a company in london which has 1250 buses and our md who you might see at most photo ops is moving there to look after it. My thinking is its a move towards doing the bus services for the olympic games. Hope so. I'll be ready for another trip away by 2012. I was off from sunday to saturday but now i'm at princess road on them very same days doing metrolink replacement. Late on sunday and an early next saturday. Few other things going on at the moment but i'll write about them as and when they happen ;)
Are stagecoach back in London? Presuming they bought out East London buses then lol If I remember rightly, stagecoach were bought out from London for over £200million...wonder how much they paid back, a lot less i'd thought hehe
ReplyDeleteHaha! I just checked here:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/business/marketforceslive/2010/oct/15/stagecoach-buys-london-bus
Stagecoach sold out for £264 million four years ago, and re-entered for under £60million... a cool £50 million a year then lol nah, theres overheads but i'm glad to see them back in london
Wont get any OLYMPIC work First have already got the contract!!! Signed sealed and delivered already.
ReplyDeleteFirst have the option to subcontract some of the route. Bluebird have the rights for all of all Londons rail replacement services, but they still sublease them.
ReplyDeleteI mean Blue triangle....damn north south divide lol
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