Depot Chat
For those of you unfortunate enough to be flying back into the UK's, ahem, best airport, Manchester, from your winter sun and ski trips during the Christmas period, you might have noticed a field of gold....er, yellow, under…
Construction Corner pt. 4
Welcome to my first ramblings of 2024. I hope you're having a better new year than a few businesses who face the prospect of having to find new premises... Place North West reported 2 weeks ago (don't say…
Construction Corner pt. 3: Squeaky Brake Time?
Apologies for the big break - a holiday got in the way. You know the ones, automatically allocated according to a pot-luck rota with absolutely no choice to move off it because the people at the bottom of…
Construction Corner pt. 2
Buses magazine always seems to be a treasure trove of information when it comes to the slightly more 'hidden' areas of the Bee Network, possibly due to its more journalistic prowess - it's not just a lay person…
Diamond Deals
An absolutely wonderful masterstroke of deal 'ballet' performed by Diamond this week. It's just sold the Bolton depot it bought from First in 2019 for ~£5.3m to GMCA/TfGM for over £30m! A return of £25m in 4 years…