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Queries About the Past

Started by leicesterbusadventurer, July 23, 2019, 07:59:07 PM

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BusMan Greg

Quote from: NXWMFAN1105 on August 01, 2019, 09:26:57 PM
Banga saw Travel West Midlands off the 530 first!
I actually never knew travel went on the 530

Pat

Quote from: BusMan Greg on August 01, 2019, 09:29:30 PM
I actually never knew travel went on the 530
They did, used Metrobuses on it.

BusMan Greg

Quote from: NXWMFAN1105 on August 01, 2019, 09:33:36 PM
They did, used Metrobuses on it.
Do you remember the bus war in Stafford back in 2015?

Pat

Quote from: BusMan Greg on August 01, 2019, 09:37:39 PM
Do you remember the bus war in Stafford back in 2015?
I don't I'm afraid. Not from that way so don't really know the network.

BusMan Greg

Quote from: NXWMFAN1105 on August 01, 2019, 09:40:13 PM
I don't I'm afraid. Not from that way so don't really know the network.
Select went on the 8 & 9 while social travel went on the 74

Pat

Quote from: BusMan Greg on August 01, 2019, 09:42:03 PM
Select went on the 8 & 9 while social travel went on the 74
Do Select still run on Stafford locals?

BusMan Greg

Quote from: NXWMFAN1105 on August 01, 2019, 09:47:27 PM
Do Select still run on Stafford locals?
yes on the 11 (Stafford-Coton Fields) & 12 (Stafford-Doxey) which is also run by arriva

Pat

Quote from: BusMan Greg on August 01, 2019, 09:51:57 PM
yes on the 11 (Stafford-Coton Fields) & 12 (Stafford-Doxey) which is also run by arriva
Do they do well?

BusMan Greg

Quote from: NXWMFAN1105 on August 01, 2019, 10:27:45 PM
Do they do well?
They do as arriva have reduced the 12 from every half hour to every hour due to low passenger numbers

Bob

Quote from: BusMan Greg on August 01, 2019, 10:37:50 PM
They do as arriva have reduced the 12 from every half hour to every hour due to low passenger numbers

I sometimes wonder how Arriva survive in Stafford apart from the 5 and 825/74. Even the 74 a supposedly busy route formerly deckered gets solos quite a bit

BusMan Greg

Quote from: Bob on August 02, 2019, 07:59:25 AM
I sometimes wonder how Arriva survive in Stafford apart from the 5 and 825/74. Even the 74 a supposedly busy route formerly deckered gets solos quite a bit
The fact is Arriva stripped a once profitable Stafford depot to help Cannock & Telford resulting in the closure.

Pat

Quote from: BusMan Greg on August 02, 2019, 09:30:48 AM
The fact is Arriva stripped a once profitable Stafford depot to help Cannock & Telford resulting in the closure.
No they didn't.  Stafford was an outstation of Cannock and was closed due to the withdrawal of less used routes caused by low passenger use and cuts to funding.  It wasn't done to help Cannock & Telford.

BusMan Greg

Quote from: NXWMFAN1105 on August 02, 2019, 09:55:54 AM
No they didn't.  Stafford was an outstation of Cannock and was closed due to the withdrawal of less used routes caused by low passenger use and cuts to funding.  It wasn't done to help Cannock & Telford.
Stafford was only made an outstation in Jan 2016 9 months before the closure, the 825 & 481 were Stafford depot routes which were transfered to Cannock & Telford to help them

Pat

Quote from: BusMan Greg on August 02, 2019, 10:08:34 AM
Stafford was only made an outstation in Jan 2016 9 months before the closure, the 825 & 481 were Stafford depot routes which were transfered to Cannock & Telford to help them
But why would Telford need help?  They operate a profitable network.

BusMan Greg

Quote from: NXWMFAN1105 on August 02, 2019, 10:15:04 AM
But why would Telford need help?  They operate a profitable network.
Ok I agree with you on that one but arriva did transfer the 825 to Cannock to help them. tbf Stafford had a good network at one point.
They operated the following routes:
1 Stafford-Baswich
2 Stafford-Walton-On-The-Hill/Bednall
3 Stafford-Wildwood
4 Uttoxeter Town Circular
5 Stafford-Hixon
6 Stafford-Rickerscote
7 Stafford-Ten Butts Cresent
8 Stafford-Mosspit
9 Stafford-Highfields
10 Stafford-Parkside
11/11A Stafford-Coton Fields
12 Stafford-Doxey
66/67 Weston Rd Sch services
73 Stafford-Stafford Tech Park
74A Stafford-Cannock
76 Stafford-Wolverhampton
88/88A/88B Stafford-Perton & Wolverhampton
481 Stafford-Telford
482 Stafford-Church Eaton/Marston
825 Stafford-Tamworth
841 Stafford-Uttoxeter
432/433 Stafford-Eccleshall
X25 Stafford-Lichfield

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