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As discussed in Stagecoach East Scotland, late last year, certain Stagecoach UK operating divisions have undergone some big administrative changes to contend with regional franchising:

• Stagecoach East Scotland and Stagecoach West Scotland have merged to form Stagecoach South Scotland,  Done as of 13 February 2026.^[1]
• Stagecoach Manchester and parts of Stagecoach Merseyside and South Lancashire have merged to form Stagecoach Manchester and Merseyside to handle both Bee Network and Metro franchising respectively, as well as rumoured franchising in Chester and Cheshire, with the latter spinning out operations based from Preston and Chorley to Stagecoach Cumbria and North Lancashire,^[2]
• Stagecoach West's operations in Bristol are to be split off into Stagecoach South Wales.  Done as of 6 February 2026.^[3]

On Stagecoach Manchester and Merseyside, a good point made on the SkyscraperCity forum about the merger was that it represented "[more] of an admin change (No change on the ground for Joe Public, but will have admin/management changes)", which is probably why there's not been much industry coverage over the changes. However, sources basing off Stagecoach press releases, for example, are beginning to use the Manchester and Merseyside name for Metro franchising announcements.^[4] Perhaps it is time that we nip it in the bud and discuss article mergers/renames/splits for the ones listed above?

My only problem is that for some of the merged divisions (especially North Scotland and Manchester and Merseyside), the merged divisions' histories are so distinct, the articles may end up unwieldy when describing their merged histories. Stagecoach West's Bristol operation seems the easiest to do, but merging the other two seems like a rather difficult task to handle alone and without consensus. Hullian111 (talk) 09:00, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

New articles starting with the amalgamation of x and y into z might be a solution. As you've hinted above with the redlinks for new article titles. Murgatroyd49 (talk) 10:39, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

@Murgatroyd49 Late call seeing as how this discussion is nearly a month old, but with South Scotland and West/South Wales done, that leaves only Manchester and Merseyside. I don't think a plain merger of the articles would work, so for clarification, as has been carried out with the other two, would this potentially work:

• Editing the Stagecoach Manchester and Stagecoach Merseyside and South Lancashire articles to refer to them as defunct companies,
• Moving some of their current operations into a new Stagecoach Manchester and Merseyside article, and
• Briefly summarising the histories of the pre-merger companies with links back to the defunct company articles?

Stagecoach North West and its respective operator summaries and 'main article' links under 'Operations' might be a good example of what I mean. Hullian111 (talk) 13:55, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

Works for me. Murgatroyd49 (talk) 15:18, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

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