Recent content by Clydeflyer

Use Waverley Bridge in a throwback to pre-1986 when Scottish Bus Group wouldn't' let anybody into the bus stations. Waverley Bridge had that nice mini roundabout at the opposite end from Princes Street that all the coaches used to 3/4/5/6 point turn on. Just needs a few bus stop poles....

IBM... found itself going from a station serving a manufacturing plant employing thousands, to a station situated in a huge derelict brownfield site (affected by anti-social behaviour reportedly) awaiting redevelopment.

Does the Magicbus Megadekka qualify? The tri-axle 110-seater Alexander Olympian F110 NES that Stagecoach bought for Magicbus Glasgow in those early deys. Think there was another two built with it with smaller seating capacities. McGills had something on their fleet inherited from Harte...

But burning question is did she and her husband arrive early and were they 'encouraged' to disembark early or did she stay put right up to the "vacate rooms by" time...

You can get to Largs well before 8am on a 901 or 906 from Greenock onwards Monday to Saturday... sure the first one from Glasgow/Port Glasgow doesn't arrive until 08.50 but that that is still decent I would say. I'd agree with the previous comment... if there was resources then later buses out...

Can anyone tell me how they operate the 23 Forfar Town Service? Are they parking up buses in the town or is it 20-odd dead miles at the start and end of each day to get a bus from Fife up to the town? Is it operated just by one bus running virtually non-stop from 5am to 11pm?

Makes you feel old when you recount memorable bus journeys…. The Great Snow of December 2010… ended up on last First Glasgow X11 to leave Glasgow at lunchtime before the whole network shutdown for the day. Something like 9 hours to get from Glasgow to the M74 junction 6 (including at one point...

I seem to remember being on a Citylink coach going to the SECC or Garden Festival in the 1980s... not sure if it was just a Edinburgh -> McInroys Point service that went via the SECC or something special for the Garden Festival. Kilmacolm... I found a picture of a Citylink liveried decker...

Was at the corner of Killermont Street and West Nile Street... where the Royal Concert Hall (stage door end) now stands. Was waste ground with a couple of portacabins really! I'd guess from the name it was Parks of Hamilton that owned it but I've a vague recollection it was Stagecoach's name...

Add to that Parks City Coach Terminal maybe? Where all the non-SBG operators went between 1990 and 1996 when then were then allowed into Buchanan. The original Magicbus operation also used St Enoch despite repeated attempts by Strathclyde stance controllers to stop them getting in.

I thought the bin crews were about to go on strike this week for an extended period... where does that leave the school buses then?

Looks like 547 is now that... operated since Monday by G6906 (X23 BUS) and G2853 (BF60 UUH). The latter has no vinyls, just plain red.

Has there ever been an occasion when Stagecoach have walked away from a route and another operator has come in and run it commercially and made it viable again? If it was close to being commercially viable would Stagecoach not stick around and make the changes like frequency or smaller...

I take it that there's been a change of plan? The status of the service on VOSA has gone to Withdrawn. Presumably the open toppers go to the re-instated 547 which is also going to Largs on Sundays.

It's nothing but a personal opinion, but I can see Ember being part of McGills one day. Taken over and operating bases consolidated, etc, to operate out of Xplore Dundee and McGills Inchinnan. McGills seem to be moving into the coach market and Ember just seems a good fit. McGills CityFlyers?