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Simon 
any chance of the 1\3/10  having the timetables  back to normal any time soon . the last two weeks  i  when i have been on a 10 people have been left at the bus station .or the first stop in oxford street. the last time it was a vehicle only able to carry 13  maybe on a thursday  you could put on one that seats 20. and any news of the change to the 4 and 7 being rerouted and combined  .i know it will proberly not for a while . that you can do  anything  about .as i know times are difficult for diamond an the rest of the public transport industry   1 thing have noticed  durning this time the 1 and 10  look as they are being interworked and it seams to be  working well  for time keeping. and with slight change to route due to road woks seams to  help time keeping also. i know you will have  a better view  on that than me.cedric

Being reinstated

thanks for pointing out  my typing error   of  missing the last two words 

DIAMOND BUS LTD

Route: Kidderminster Bus Station to Hales Park via Bewdley

Service number: 2

Service type: Normal Stopping

Effective date: 10 Aug 2020

Cedric

1, 3, 10, 42, 43

We are waiting to see what happens with demand

2

We are looking at re-instating from 10th August


302

Is a School day service. 

303

Is operating full timetable, and has been for a while

thanks for that simon

Simon   when will remaining  services in wyre  forest area   be back on normal timetables please. the 1/2/3/10/42/302/303

I saw 6 Enviro 400's today parked up at Adderley Green depot. Their positioning made identification of most difficult, but 33733 is one of them. Here for prep before moving to Leicester maybe? All are still in standard first group livery with Diamond stickers covering the First logos at present.

think they will have come from diamond north west depot at bolton  (EX FIRST)   diamond north west  have  quite a few first buses on loan, still in firsts livery  with diamond stickers on, 

Whats happing in kidderminster with  routes and timetables  , when  covid timetables finish

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From Sunday 31st May
4   Walsall to West Bromwich   Will continue to be withdrawn and replaced with a NEW 10 minute frequency 4H service between Walsall and Hayley Green via West Bromwich.
4H   Walsall to Hayley Green   Increased to a NEW 10 minute frequency 4H service between Walsall and Hayley Green via West Bromwich.
16   Hamstead to Birmingham   Will be extended to include 16W route. Operating a NEW 10 minute frequency from West Bromwich to Birmingham via Hamstead.
16W   West Bromwich to Birmingham   Will be renumbered & combined with 16, Operating a NEW 10 minute frequency from West Bromwich to Birmingham via Hamstead.
202   Halesowen to Bromsgrove   Will be replaced with NEW 44 route, which will operate hourly Monday to Saturday from Halesowen to Bromsgrove via Quinton, Northfield, Rubery, Lydiate Ash and Princess of Wales Hospital, Bromsgrove.
146   Redditch to Birmingham   Will not be a reinstated service

the  303 kidderminster worcester    Will not be a reinstated service

Cedric

We took our the railway station connection for this very point.   
   


Simon

simon
i was under the impression   that  the mainline railway stopped you going in there.
cedric

Hi Simon,
The latest announcements can be read as meaning the 146 and 303 have been permanently withdrawn,  --  is that correct ??

Thanks.

Simon  while a can see your point about the financial  costs of running services . a couple  of points  the  303 does not go by railway  station now . so i can not see people going up there to get a free ride on the train and risk getting  caught at Worcester. and there is only one station along the route and it is quite a walk from the village  and only a couple of trains stop there and station build are now used for other things so after that village which is the first one out of kidderminster. along the rest of the route people have no access to any public   transport.

They have been in use on the 292 and 1 this week, observed while at work.

sam    they are  being used on the 10  also

with the extra buses that are now in kidderminster yard   are any of them for service here  to replace some of the older buses like the 3 ex first buses  still in  service and ones around same age, what  is current allocation at kidderminster

Tony i did  not mean  which buses where allocated here. I was just  wondering  how many vehicles where allocated here at the moment with the reduce  service level .As for the extra buses i was on about  there are some come here  from the London area  for storage at this time  just wondered if they where for service  or  for sale

with the extra buses that are now in kidderminster yard   are any of them for service here  to replace some of the older buses like the 3 ex first buses  still in  service and ones around same age, what  is current allocation at kidderminster

this  has been  post elsewhere     133/213 conistons  580 wfdar

a correction  to  the   post  as previous  information was incorrect  on the 580  dial a ride have not  got the 580 i was told this in  email from wfdae  coniston  have  got 133 / 213/580 

The guidance was outlined in principle to operators before Rotala withdrew its services from the First Worcester Crowngate Bus Station

saying services you are wrong they only have the 303 that goes to crgwn gate. there is the 302 but that is a collage service and as they are shut it would not run  anyway