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I am quite the worker and I don't need the music from a voialin.

Nah...... Just the men in white coats.

I know the 6 comes off a 10? Those deserve the double deckers but the 35/77 is pointless, carrying fresh air.

You could say the same about the PN18 on a Sunday, why use a platinum ?

Can't they just use an enviro 200 like the other days.....

The reason they're on the back of the X10 is to save money, decisions aren't just made on a whim. Like the reason for 734 on the 9 the other day, it was an afternoon peak board. The only option we had was send it out on the 9 and make service or try and swap it over with another bus, this would have made it late. A decision to put 734 on the 9 isn't taken lightly,  it's a case of a bus running or a bus not running.

Until you've worked in the industry and know what you're talking about keep your fantasy bus operations on your computer.

Conflicting views this morning as to where the 0708 19E from Halesowen to Harborne is supposed to terminate. Timetables, bus stop info etc all shows it terminating at the Green Man but the driver this morning turfed remaining passengers off at the Lordswood Rd / Harborne Leisure Centre stop.

Then ran NIS to the Green Man in very heavy traffic to turn round!

This is copied direct from the running board.

Time shown is at Harborne, Lordswood Rd where this service terminates. Stops along Harborne High St are not served by this journey.

The service did look the island at the top of war lane and unload on the stand towards Dudley, thus meant passengers then had to cross over the busy road to transfer to other buses.

No they have not 210*s are Pensnett they operate one 16 journey starting from wall heath to Stourbridge then goes on to the 8s

Does a 16 from Wall Heath to Stourbridge then runs dead back to Kingswinford to do a other 16 to Stourbridge

Anyone know what buses am on the 208

801 and 867

New routes 14, 17A, 24, 288A/C will be operated by Pensnett from Sunday 21st April
Service 5 extended to Stourbridge via the existing Diamond 267 route to Stourbridge via Ashwood Park and Wordsley.

Service 14A to replace Diamond service 208 and will run hourly between Dudley and Merry Hill.

Service 17A to replace existing Diamond service 657 and from Kingswinford to Wall Heath. Will be interworked with service 5.

Service 24 Route taken over by Diamond and operates between Foxyards, Dudley, Cradley Heath and Merry Hill.

Service 288A/C replacing existing Diamond service 288 between Stourbridge, Redlake Rd and Stourbridge Junction

Not NX related but saves me making another post in the April tenders thread:

Banga have registered a 52 (replacing the 22 between Wolves and Coseley) and have won the 53 (Wolverhampton to Rocket Pool) off igo.

Igo operate the 208  8)

6918-6931 are branded for the 9 I believe 8)

6919 to 6931

Pensnett has both types of MMC (6101-10 are still there) so that not mixing of types has already gone out of the window.

Not for too much longer

Judy? I always thought it was Kerry!

It is our lovely Kerry

All of 6111-6124 were moved to AG on the tracker in December

Makes adjusting them when they're running late difficult. Also good to note if you want to radio 6116 you have to radio 0

Meanwhile a b7rle was on the 9 though.

Yes which wasn't allocated at the same time 6108 was allocated to the 28........ the streetdeck became available after then replaced 6108 which was on the 28 as it was the only bus available. 6108 was required in garage for MOT prep work.

The B7 on the 9 was a vehicle that came in this morning off a number 6 and has gone out on an afternoon board because it was the only bus available. Youll also find freshly branded 6920 is also on the 9 after it was collected this afternoon and left Wolverhampton garage at 3pm.

Putting it on here cause it won't be noteworthy soon but there's a street deck on the 126

From today it's not noteworthy, allocation for 126 now streetdecks and e400. Sunday's allocation will be e400 with streetdecks used on the 6, second choice for the 6 will be e400 or b7. No tridents will be used on Sundays at Pensnett anymore.

To be honest over the last few years, PNs fleet has been a lot more modern than it used to be.

Currently best performing garage.

The pvr of the 9 was 22/23 before more recent changes to the 9. At the same time the X10 got extended to Gornal (1 per hour). There may just be enough with minimal or no spares. They'll be t he Streetdecks plus PN are expected to retain some Crimson E400MMC's

Streetdecks and 6101 to 6110 are moving onto the 126 & 14.

Got yourself a good old people mover regarding the 28 it seems. Busy bus full with Many OAP's

And the college students, the shoppers at merry hill, people who live along the route and of course everyone else who catches it........ foolish human.