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Also don't know why they decided to increase the frequency to every 8 minutes when it apparently isn't carrying any passengers...

I've noticed over the past couple of weeks more and more trams are displaying 'to exit the tram press the illuminated button' instead of a destination display. Some carry in on the front only, some carry front and rear.
Is there a reason for displaying this instead of a destination?

Because after Covid the driver opened the doors automatically from the cab. After the engineering works it seems to have gone back to previous, and it was catching passengers out

I've deliberately ignored the forum recently because of all the rubbish posts.

But having just stood from Birmingham to West Brom and far too intimate with a few people around me, I'm calling bullshit on the above

(This was no different to normal on the 3 days I commute on the metro each week...)

Changed since the December timetable, the 4 car 196s pull up right to the end of platform 1 to negate the sighting issues. Bloody long walk from that end to the current exit though

Tell you what the joke is, it's the declining standards of grammar,  spelling and punctuation on this forum... 

Bramford Lane is closed towards Oldbury so there on diversion in that direction so that's not helping. They have changed stands at West Brom and the 16A at 17.41 used the old stand drove off leaving the waiting passengers behind.

Driver on the 45 pulled up at the old wrong stop on Tuesday morning (literally opposite to where it is now), didn't believe me when I told him he was in error...

Just seen YX68UXK in person, it is showing wrongly on Bustimes as YW68... FYI whoever has the power to change

Glad the 45 is going via Hallam Street again, even it is only a trial. It is far more popular with older folks to get to the main entrance of the hospital, and the 45 is far more reliable than the 16A so it will be well used if publicised properly.

@uniquicity - there's suggestions that Worcester will be getting all 5 from that 65 plate batch at Leciester i.e. 35151-5

Interesting, probably got one they will be replacing in the first shot i.e. 32645

Nice. I'm not all too familiar with Running Day events. What do they consist of?

Windows being licked

Tram 57 was out in service today, first time I've seen that one and can't see it mentioned elsewhere.

Cheers for the gen. Was a recent delivery along with 56.

51 and 53 are also in service and 41 is back from its time off.

Never mind the bullcrap chat about infrastructure, the biggest crime is why they haven't gone to an 8 minute frequency yet

Service 16A now departs from stand M in west bromwich bus station

Cheers, no signs up or anything directing you so bit of a blooper by bus station staff I guess

Think the BODS data is also wrong for the route also... it shows it as stopping at stop SE at Sandwell Hospital towards West Brom when it should be SA & SC.

Any idea of the new stand allocation for the 16A in West Brom bus station... has moved since last week.