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Nathan4775 · March 24, 2013, 05:38:21 PM

I was in Bilston Yesterday an spotted 30432 back in service. Is this a temporay thing as it is still carrying the 529E branding Walsall - Willenhall

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PM · March 24, 2013, 06:38:24 PM

To be honest its a good bus in decent nick and for the last couple of weeks there have been no rotala buses being advertised for sale. This bus was previously up for sale-maybe rotala realise they need to hang on to buses like this. Personally, I would say to them that they cant go wrong with a dart and yes maybe its older than some of the solos but at least it will be reliable and if one of the wright ones very modern and stylish looking unlike some ugly god awful rattly optare product clearly not built to last or travelled on by its designers as they seem oblivious to the atrocious build quality, poor reliability. I don't know why people buy buses for them-must just be for cheapness although speaking to blue diamond drivers they all hate them and they are unreliable, a notable incident being the bus breaking down and starting to smell like sh*t in the interior which turned out to be an exploded or whatever battery

Ash · March 24, 2013, 06:49:45 PM

R530/2YRP were sold months ago even been taken out of Tony's Rotala fleet list but still used in service daily. T443EBD is a very good bus not seen T445EBD for a long time that could be the black diamond dart parked up at long acre which has been there for a couple of months now.

PM · March 24, 2013, 06:52:20 PM

To be honest I am really surprised more operators didn't buy wright bodied darts as in my experience they are very well built and nicer than pointer bodied ones

Ash · March 25, 2013, 05:40:06 PM

Just been on this bus on the 4, was a great ride and powerful certainly a great bus for it's age. Also the 4/4H/4M was mostly cadet operated today with only 4 red and white darts in service a enviro200 and a royale centro. This probably was the reason why there was a 57 reg solo on the 301 even thought 30437 was on the 326.

PM · March 25, 2013, 06:03:53 PM

Quote from: Ash on March 25, 2013, 05:40:06 PM
Just been on this bus on the 4, was a great ride and powerful certainly a great bus for it's age. Also the 4/4H/4M was mostly cadet operated today with only 4 red and white darts in service a enviro200 and a royale centro. This probably was the reason why there was a 57 reg solo on the 301 even thought 30437 was on the 326.

How were loadings doing on the 4 today?

Ash · March 25, 2013, 06:06:56 PM

Been on 5 different diamond 4 services today, which were 30213,30218,30825,30206,30432. All the buses were at least half full, the busiest one was 30432 which was a 5pm departure from Walsall. With the weather situation they weren't too bad I also travelled on 2 diamond 301 services which in comparison had less passengers on.

Dylan4579 · March 25, 2013, 06:14:16 PM

Quote from: Ash on March 25, 2013, 06:06:56 PM
Been on 5 different diamond 4 services today, which were 30213,30218,30825,30206,30432. All the buses were at least half full, the busiest one was 30432 which was a 5pm departure from Walsall. With the weather situation they weren't too bad I also travelled on 2 diamond 301 services which in comparison had less passengers on.

Did you get on the diamond 4H/M yesterday? Must've been busy with NXWM stopping at blackheath

Ash · March 25, 2013, 06:22:06 PM

All the NXWM buses I saw yeseterday displayed 4M Merry Hill this was around 1pm although were suppose to be terminating at Blackheath, the section between Walsall and West Bromwich is not badly used on a Sunday and there were a few passengers on board. Also only the cadets and centro's were used.

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