Not entirely meaningless, they do represent rough groupings - M3x is currently any routes avoiding London but not going as far as Scotland, though from Jan those will be M8x.
No, looks like it's no longer served, definitely nothing in the booking system.
Depends who the contractor is. I was on a journey where the bus was held for hours where they fetched a mechanic (it failed at Norton Canes services on the M6, so hardly the middle of nowhere), it's an absolute lottery unfortunately.
Megabus generally have contractors along the route. They will be priority ones and last resort ones. Some can supply a coach only while some will insist on coach and driver because they want the coach back at Base. On some routes even rival operators like National Express do help.
As per posts #120 and #121, Newcastle-under-Lyme (Stoke-on-Trent), isn't on there .
Very strange new routes from Megabus such as the Bristol to Heathrow stuff, proper going for the M4 corridor competition. Something that I do wonder though is who is going to run these new routes as there is a lot starting/finishing in Bristol yet Stagecoach Bristol is closing it's Megabus part so I am interested to see what ends up happening operators wise.
Yes, on the bustimes.org page the *only* ones still running from the 10th are the ones that show as starting then - i.e. M41-M44, M52, M65+ The M3 I think stopped entirely during summer of last year? The Scottish routes (M11, M11X, M17, M20, with M19 missing), are on the Scottish Citylink bustimes.org page now.
It was being operated by AirSym
Megabus aren't very good at updating their entries in the National Coach Services Database. Shame really given the National Coach Services Database is then used to give information to Traveline and Bustimes as well as probably a number of other journey planning sites. I know when I have complained to Flixbus about them not updating the database, they said it's too manual and time consuming (which is interesting, too time consuming to get your services promoted on numerous journey planners?) and so I wonder if that is the same attitude that Megabus take?
If only Megabus, Flixbus and National Express came up with a map like that! Interesting it shows service station stops.
Megabus has https://uk.megabus.com/uk-network-map
Looks like that includes Berrys routes which I thought was part of Flixbus. I also find it interesting the 902 citylink route is imcluded.
The Berrys Superfast SF1/SF2/SF3 are Berrys own services. Flixbus and Megabus just sell a couple of tickets for the services.
When I travelled from Victoria to Weymouth a few weeks back on Sunday 10th December using the NX 035 service we pulled in next to an AirSym coach in one of the bays at Bournemouth interchange so I think that the M3 was still running then. However I believe that Heathrow hadn't been served for a while before that, so therefore wouldn't show up on the map that you have linked to. It could be that Megabus cut the route for good at the end of 2023.
I can select London to Bournemouth on Megabus website but not showing any journeys. Southampton was dropped on the M3 a while back.
Anyone know where the M12 service goes on the map? Its marked going up the M1 out of London.
M12 has long been the Leeds 'stopper' - eg Milton Keynes, Rugby, Leicester Loughborough, Meadowhall.
It's the main London - Leeds service, and is basically anything not continuing beyond Newcastle to Scotland. The stopping pattern could be as limited as Sheffield only, with most trips doing Leicester and Sheffield.
Is that the service that runs through to Glasgow?
Possibly Maclean's. Seen the London bound working from Glasgow that goes via Reading
Yeah it ends in Glasgow. Thank you
