🐝 Bee Network's Metroline Manchester Takeover: Tranche 3 First Day

[@MikeSlater226]

This is strange to see, I’m a driver for Stagecoach in Hull and was part of the movement on the 4th/5th to take 70+ vehicles from Manchester across 3 depots, awesome video man 🔥 I also didn’t know some old 19000’s were staying at Bee Network I thought it was all brand new buses 🤔

[@philsowter9092]

Hopefully it will fall flat on its arse .

[@BLACKSTA361]

Thank you for your service

[@MikeSlater226]

@ thanks bro 🔥

[@DanielsUKT]

Great video loads of new buses and ex stagecoach vehicles good to see metroline in Manchester as well as in London

[@glitchFan2428]

Thank you, yes there's a lot to see and ride!

[@dylanmoody5011]

are you planning on doing an ashton bus station video following tranche 3? would love to see one

[@Phil-ws5jp]

Bee network has been a blessing for bus passengers on the Oldham Road corridor from Manchester (83/84), when First ran the services they were so unreliable, time keeping was appalling usually. The £2 single and £5 bus day rover is really good value, we are returning to how things were in SELNEC and then GMT, let’s hope the politicians in London don’t muck it up again in a few years.

[@YaoboyProd2K15]

A warm welcome for Metroline in Manchester!

[@That1TransportLover]

More like a cold freezing welcome looking at the recent weather

[@glitchFan2428]

@@YaoboyProd2K15 it definitely was fookin freezing 🥶

[@kurinchikankesavan9866]

Wish Metroline had it's own livery in Manchester too, rn it's using Stagecoach livery [and bee network usually]

[@glitchFan2428]

Yeah, would be interesting to see

[@Bobbyandmog]

They do have Their own livery,it can only be seen on their PB1 Route near london. Im expecting the livery to be that.

[@glitchFan2428]

@Bobbyandmog that's interesting! Never knew that existed, you learn something new every day

[@uk-martin4905]

Metroline has been given a date by TfGM by which all the buses must be painted yellow - although I don't know when that is.

[@mattcordes3609]

All buses will be Bee Network livery eventually so there will be no Metroline livery in GM

[@resketless]

Different bus models with mix of modern and old changing into yellow liverly for tranche 3

[@glitchFan2428]

Yes the yellow livery is all you'll see when all the old buses get retired or repainted

[@jmalloy2202]

We’ve had bee network buses in town I’m from since March of last year. we see the occasion ‘first bus’ still in its original colour,

[@glitchFan2428]

March 2024 was Tranche 2, we've had them since September 2023 when Tranche 1 commenced

[@jmalloy2202]

@ so yours was the Guinea pig with all the teething problems, ours wasn’t as bad, I think issues with my area was not enough bus drivers and many of the bus drivers didn’t know the bus routes in the area.

[@glitchFan2428]

@@jmalloy2202 I suppose teething problems is inevitable when it comes to a handover of this scale, overall I think they did a good job 👍🏻 hopefully they can sort out the bus driver shortages

[@JhonMayall]

This is one livery that will need to be driven through the bus wash every night.!!

[@rankedcitizen]

Its mainly because the diesel engines emissions cause the bright yellow livery to become much noticably dirtier compared to TFL's red busses

[@LewisWilliamson-sg3ns]

Stagecoach will be missed as it's been the company I does since I was little so he it will be missed btw if you hate BEE NETWORK Like the comment :)

[@joj.]

Stagecoach are bloody awful. The only bus operator to have given me trouble with tickets over and over again, and they retimed all our local buses because *they* weren't able to run them to schedule. Whether you have good memories with them or not, they're not at all fit for purpose nowadays.

[@StevenHughestransportvideos]

Brilliant video, do you know what route the single deck BZLs are going on? I saw a few at the volco dealership but not seen any on the trackers yet.

[@glitchFan2428]

Thanks Steven, I've not seen any single deck BZL yet, but when they do come out I'll definitely be filming them

[@StevenHughestransportvideos]

@glitchFan2428 I saw some the Saturday between Christmas and New Year at the Volvo dealership near Trafford Park, with some of the double decks, but not seen any appear in service. Hopefully they will appear soon.

[@andrewoakeshott7759]

Does anyone know the timeframe for repainting / retirement? I hope it won't be like SWR taking basically 10 years to repaint all their trains, though I very much doubt it.

[@jmalloy2202]

They will probably sell some of the older buses rather than re-spray and refurbished them.

[@StagecoachLE]

This Includes Adverts, Ex-Stagecoach Buses & 16812 With No Interior Lights

[@glitchFan2428]

Yes, I daresay it'll take years before everything is yellow. Back in the day, years after SELNEC was formed there were still buses in corporation liveries I was told

[@StagecoachLE]

​@@glitchFan2428 Oh

[@StagecoachLE]

& A Cadet

[@MBTransport-k1i]

Hope Metroline will replace the Voith gearboxes to ZF Ecomats on the E400s

[@glitchFan2428]

I highly doubt that is going to happen, as much as I'd like it to!

[@MBTransport-k1i]

@ Anyways Voith gearbox on Metroline E400s are so strange

[@MBTransport-k1i]

And I wish the MAN engined ones are still in service

[@ashleyjordan27891]

They are only loans they are still stagecoach vehicles some are coming down southeast in march

[@user-nq2ik4jy9k]

I guess Stagecoach Manchester have rolled out the new ticket machines, are they ticketer?

[@glitchFan2428]

I've not had the chance to go on a stagecoach tranche 3 bus yet, but I'd assume for consistency sake they are all the same as the ones currently on other bee network buses.

[@leonwilliams3221]

Yes all ticket machines are the new ticketed machine.

[@user-nq2ik4jy9k]

Ok, I guess Stagecoach Cumbria are getting the ticketer as well some point soon

[@Hurriedimpgames]

​@@glitchFan2428Good, hopefully if Sheffield goes ahead with franchising, they'll use the Ticketer as standard, the Vix TP5800 machines that Stagecoach use are hopeless, always breaking down.

[@ArrivaBus2208]

What happened to Arriva and First

[@glitchFan2428]

They were not awarded any contracts (I think first still has some school contracts tho)

[@JimbobsTransportVideos]

I wasn't able to ride metroline yesterday or today becuse my route has been suspended for most of both days due to ice! Looking great though.

[@glitchFan2428]

@JimbobsTransportVideos sorry to hear that, I suppose some weather related cancellations are inevitable. Hopefully you'll get to come out and explore what metroline has to offer soon!

[@kieranstravels]

I'm sure you'll get to it eventually jimbob!

[@philsowter9092]

Looks like a fleet of custard, expect nothing else from a labour mayor, noticed all company operating names have been covered up so no company has an identity same for the drivers, looks like this Burnham bloke is a bit of a control freak.

[@jonathanpringle8238]

they should have brought gmbuses back and all buses red/black

[@Phil-ws5jp]

The passengers don’t care if the livery is bright pink as long as the buses run and the fares aren’t expensive m. Only the enthusiasts have a thing about bus liveries