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all my life I have lived in an area served by both arriva buses and trains and generally support them, but every year arriva run no services on boxing day and as they come into the west midlands more and more is it fare that they should take over services and not run them on Christmas day?

Ok the green bus are going to be running services in wm county but should the passenger have to cope with a different bus provider who wont accept arriva passes? or even worse be faced with no service at all!

Ill start off commander leads the way every time engije noises are epic great sized light wieght bus and very quick (no darn i-shift thanks the lord)

X529 a is a great idea I personally think, running it limited stop from Walsall to j10, then along black country express way to Portabello island then limited stop into Wolverhampton! if I was to start a bus company this would be my first route I would start on!

So I noticed that there isn't a tread dedicated to megabus!

So here is some news then.......

Stagecoach have been recruiting a lot of drivers lately at Rugby and will continue for a while. They are to start shortly some new Europian rooutes into Germany and now to the south of france.

Also (only rumour this though) Megabus will have its own station at Heathrow airport at the new terminal 2 building and there services will serve t2 only. this is due to start when t2 opens and one service will be in competition with national Express's 210 service. but with fares from £1 and nx starting at £15 its gonna be war me thinks!

There has been a bad accident on the x51 route in which the car driver has died and 26 injured. Happened on birmingham road

Hello all just see 1845 amd 4673 arrive at cov garage! Anyone know why?

So im really excited about gaining an interview for an auto vehicle location controller baded at the new command centre in bordesley! Im just wondering if drivers have any advice for me on what they expect of avl controllers and anyone who work as a traffic controller if they have any advice?

Thanks :-)

De courcey are gaining 2X 06 plate volvo b12 levantes from national express sipson road for theor nx work

The first of 3 of the coventry scanias are leaving the garage today as 4 new buses have come in. I have been told by the guy sorting them out that they are destined for wolverhampton !!!!
He said some or possible all of them may go to walsall thoughThey cant be used on the 38 due to thw low bridge by bradford place


What route do people think they will be used on in wolves that is if they are going there?

I was travelling over to Wolverhampton today, saw travel express and this question popped into my head. what area in the centro area has the worst quality buses? for me Wolverhampton ticked that box. why....nx are operating the oldest double deckers in there west midlands fleet here and it seems it is a dump for older buses past there prime (O405N, B6, Spectras). Then you have Arriva Wednesfield, diamond who only seem to provide darts in wolves and finally banga and travel express.

poll is easy to answer but comments comments would be great to tell us why you think its the worst area and maybe tell us what you think the area with the best quality buses is


For me best quality buses would be Walsall and in second place Solihull

Ok I have been very positive about arriva's takeover of midland and praise them about there operations. So here is a critisim. I really think that drivers at wednesfield should of now been given arriva uniforms, I can understand buses not being done up straight away if they are going to he replaced but driver appearence should be a must. Saw a driver on the 9 just in a casual shirt and jeans and arriva should sort it out as it could damage there image. What are others views

please comment to show your thoughts

has anyone herd anything about De courcey selling up, I have herd that this may be possible and that arriva and first are interested?

There is always a lot of negative stuff on here about Diamond and also Arriva but I want to focus on Diamond.

I am a massive fan for improving the service and the image the customer receives and I think the biggest step recently is that many operators are choosing leather seats for there fleet.

So here is Diamond (not fully there im sure some of you can add)

Diamond introduced Signature brand, which increased bus ridership (FANTASIC BUT......like with the Premier 997)

Diamond have introduced high spec buses that feature wood effect (only other operator is travel de courcey)

Diamond have also bought BRITISH BUILT Buses for west midlands (excluding 1 MCV 3 ciatro) and to be even more picky there not Scottish or N Irish!

OK optare aren't the best but I love them and really rate them, ive had them since 2007!

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Diamond operate 26 leather seat buses compared to national express 17 and De courcey with 3.
Compare that on fleet size proportion......
Dimaond operate a few hundred buses to nx over 1000 so have a higher portion of better standard of buses.
Diamond have also introduced 4 citaros to its fleet which is Europes best selling bus and the build quality is outstanding but highly priced
Then on to environment issues take in the whole diamond fleet and they operate more hybrid buses (percentage) compared to national express.

Plus they have already made what I believe major improvements to services in Kidderminster with newish buses and offer great value for money tickets on there Redditch network.

ok Diamond aren't perfect but no company is, I think they do deserve a little bit of credit and lets open our arms to the new delivery of buses and lets use them tooo!! And hope that it will improve bus quality and service for all which is what we all really want!

Just from recent observations on my journeys in Coventry is "who do people think is the second operator is Coventry" is it stagecoach or de courcey and who is 3rd and 4th?

Putting rumours like that without any facts on the internet is dangerous and can cause damage to operators

Thought Id start the topic of Flights Hallmark, rotala's coach division.

Noticed that one of the dennis tridents had route branding yesterday. Sadly didnt manage to see what route but it was on a 10 service. How come they are branding buses when they dont even know of they can continue yet?

Noticed that there are more solos at blue diamond not yet painted hope they arent beeing added.

Also noticed that 2 of the eclipse volvos was parked up there

And there was a hybrid parked up in the garage area too!

Finally saw the black diamond royale centro on the 99 how very odd!!

Does anyone know what route tge wright bodied b7  going onto at long achre? Just noticed obe with blue diamond on the front of it!