Cesarcollie
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Hedingham have announced closure of the former Osbornes Tollesbury depot, and deregistered its commercial services, from end July.
Do you have a link for this announcement ???. As nothing in notice and proceedings which would have to be done in the last edition. In order to meet the 56 day requirement.
Sorry can't post a link as nothing yet in public domain in writing. As I said, commercial services deregistered, school contracts that remain after July moving to Kelvedon. Probably won't do much to stem the large losses....
Profit/(Loss) Figures (to the nearest 1000)
Company 2014 2013
Anglian Bus Ltd (£590,000) (£804,000)
H C Chambers & Son Ltd £ 30,000 (£ 36,000)
Hedingham & District Omnibuses Ltd (£387,000) (£ 76,000)
Konectbus Ltd £132,000 £-*
TOTAL (£815,000) (£916,000)
*(£210) to be precise - but none of the other accounts are given to the same level of accuracy
What on earth has gone so wrong at Anglian bus? I think there should just merge it with Konectbus and let them sort it out.
Why would just merging it with Konectbus be the answer?
I think Go Ahead has tried as much as possible and realised its not going to happen.Clearly their management are doing something right to increase profits etc
I think Go Ahead has tried as much as possible and realised its not going to happen.
In Norwich both Anglia and Konect are jointly marketed with an excellent timetable book (at least the last time I was there a few months ago)
It comes down to two completely different markets of bus user I think, Konect works (Park and Ride helps). Anglia doesn't.
What were Go-Ahead up to when they moved into East Anglia? Were they banking on First pulling out? Have they taken decent businesses and let them wither, or were Hedingham, Chambers etc struggling already (and if so, what on earth were Go-Ahead thinking of when they bought them)? Anglian seemed to be thriving as an independent, but the last few years have seen round after round of cuts and reorganisation the fleet must be less than half the size it was a few years ago. Is it more likely that Go-Ahead rather than First are looking for an exit strategy?
What were Go-Ahead up to when they moved into East Anglia? Were they banking on First pulling out? Have they taken decent businesses and let them wither, or were Hedingham, Chambers etc struggling already (and if so, what on earth were Go-Ahead thinking of when they bought them)? Anglian seemed to be thriving as an independent, but the last few years have seen round after round of cuts and reorganisation the fleet must be less than half the size it was a few years ago. Is it more likely that Go-Ahead rather than First are looking for an exit strategy?
Anglian were the bees knees when Go Ahead bought them in 2012, it's incredibly disappointing to see them be run this hard into the ground. I think the PVR for Anglian is now 32, which is a drop of over 60%. The route 61/route 7 combination, which had a monopoly on Kessingland/Southwold and was giving First's X1 a real challenge in 2011/2012, is now in major decline. First have brought back the 99 and effectively won back Kessingland, whilst the 7 hasn't stood a chance against the new X1 fleet from 2013.
In addition, Anglian's 88 corridor (Halsworth-Bungay-Poringland-Norwich) has been struggling, and it is very telling that apparently when First launched their Charcoal Line 40 service on part of the route, it achieved its six-week targets in the first three days of operation - source http://busandtrain.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/changes-in-yarmouth-lowestoft.html . I honestly can't see Anglian lasting much longer before Go Ahead pull the plug.