tbtc
Veteran Member
What examples are there of services/ links that were withdrawn when a company was split up (or a garage sold << please note that I'm not talking about a garage being closed down by an existing operator, but actually sold as a going concern to another operator)?
e.g. I was thinking about the lack of cross-city routes in Manchester, but my knowledge of Mancunian buses only started in the days of GM Buses North/ GM Buses South, so I don't know whether there were more cross-city services in the era when it was all one company (and the two "new" companies decided that it wasn't worth a bus war against a big rival, so just stuck to their respective sides of the conurbation)?
I know that the SBG went through some big changes (e.g. Eastern Scottish running in Monklands, Central Scottish in Dumbarton, Midland Scottish stretching from Perth to Milngavie) but I'm not aware of any services that were withdrawn as a result of the company boundaries being reshaped (presumably there were some - I think that the Edinburgh - Bathgate 16 used to run through to Glasgow at one stage, but this may have ceased well before the Monklands routes passed to Central Scottish).
(to repeat - this isn't about routes scrapped when a depot actually closed - e.g. the Milngavie depot mentioned above was closed in the Kelvin Scottish era - this is about times when depots have changed hands and links have been withdrawn as a result)
e.g. I was thinking about the lack of cross-city routes in Manchester, but my knowledge of Mancunian buses only started in the days of GM Buses North/ GM Buses South, so I don't know whether there were more cross-city services in the era when it was all one company (and the two "new" companies decided that it wasn't worth a bus war against a big rival, so just stuck to their respective sides of the conurbation)?
I know that the SBG went through some big changes (e.g. Eastern Scottish running in Monklands, Central Scottish in Dumbarton, Midland Scottish stretching from Perth to Milngavie) but I'm not aware of any services that were withdrawn as a result of the company boundaries being reshaped (presumably there were some - I think that the Edinburgh - Bathgate 16 used to run through to Glasgow at one stage, but this may have ceased well before the Monklands routes passed to Central Scottish).
(to repeat - this isn't about routes scrapped when a depot actually closed - e.g. the Milngavie depot mentioned above was closed in the Kelvin Scottish era - this is about times when depots have changed hands and links have been withdrawn as a result)