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As some of you may be aware 'Mad' Ronnie, owner of this bus is seriously ill after a fall at Hamstead Station. Things are not looking too good for him and the buses he owned are having to be moved from Oldbury where they were kept. His family are looking to sell 4535 for £1200 for further preservation. If anyone one is interested in helping save 4535 send me a PM and I will pass you details on to someone who is looking find a new owner or consortium to look after this bus. The bus itself is in reasonable condition for its age

Now which is best? There's only one way to find out!

Fight

http://wmbusphotos.com/NXWM/1750-1953/1831.html

I have had a message via the seller 3rd hand that SN 11 BWG/H/J & SN 61 DCF have been purchased by National Express. I presume these are for one of the airport fleets, anyone else heard of them anywhere?

I have got to go to Newcastle upon Tyne sometime in the near future (at least NX are paying thankfully).

Any train arriving in Newcastle before 12:30 requires an anytime return priced at £211

Birmingham - Sheffield Anytime return is £82.50
Sheffield -   Newcastle Anytime return is £88.50

Saving £40 with exactly the same validity (return anytime within as month).

It was always nice when I worked at Summer Lane for a demonstrator to turn up for the 'Gaffers' to look over.

Then 37 years later   http://www.wmbusphotos.com/MidlandClassic/80.html

I know all operators have the occasional lapse in standards, but I expect better than this from Stagecoach. Put a replacement panel in where a London destination display used to be, then cut a hole in it to match the size of a Dot Matrix display, then instead of glazing it properly just get a piece of clear plastic, rivot it onto the front of the Fibre Glass panel, then rivot a couple of aluminium plates on either end to make sure it doesn't fall off!

Yes it has got a bus connection
http://boredombash.com/hilarious-towing-fail/#_

http://wmbusphotos.com/FirstMidlandRed/SN08AAF.html

Trent have painted 691 in an early British Railways. Looks good!
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=700399443314812&set=a.618669974821093.1073741835.189145857773509&type=1&theater

I have put both the National Express and Rotala January fleetchanges on the front page of the main site

Rather a bad RTC today
http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Bus-driver-airlifted-hospital-collision-tractor/story-20512289-detail/story.html

Interesting ITN news report from London (with an Australian accent!)

Bit of a different photo I managed to get today
http://wmbusphotos.com/NXWM/4700-4879/4873.html

http://www.itv.com/news/granada/update/2014-01-14/roof-ripped-off-bus-in-lancaster/

http://www.kingcommute.co.uk/index.html


Nice to know they will be using left hand drive King Longs
http://www.kingcommute.co.uk/your-coach.html

I don't normally get to see the regular freight through Birmingham New Street as it is booked through 10 minutes before the first train from Hednesford gets in, but it was running 10 mnutes late today - so here is the Daventry to Wentloog Tesco train in Birmingham New Street today
http://wmbusphotos.com/Trains/Class66/66432.html

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20131222/local/arriva-to-leave-malta-early-next-year.499979#.UravcrSvSs0

Certainly not West midlands News. Wonder if any of the buses will be repatriated over here though

Not many operators would use a bus seated spectra for a journey not much short of 160 miles round trip
http://wmbusphotos.com/non-wm/Merseyside/MaghullX557XEO.html

It appears someone else has taken a liking to taking photographs of the main site and pretending they are their own on facebook
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=302354409897810&set=a.103764116423508.4831.100003697599142&type=1&theater
looks awfully like
http://wmbusphotos.com/NXWM/4225-4474/4456.html
Strange thing is I suspect this page is actually a duplicate for someone who has already blocked me for reporting him to facebook for stealing photographs in the past.

Every other photograph on that facebook page also looks familiar so they have also been reported to facebook for copyright infringement.
I have my suspicions that this person has also 'pretended' to be Pensnett Driver in the past on Facebook, and now be doing the same on other sites!