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4609 - Matylda
6707 - Surinder Kaur
6710 - Joanne

The 205 route to Kingswinford and I think it did the 256 route to wolves

205 to Wall Heath, Blaze Park, then similar to the 255 to Penn, and through Wakeley Hill (what the Diamond 64 serves now) into Wolverhampton, i believe.

4612 - ''Demi''
4693 - ''Lillian''
6702 ' ''Katarzyna''

Ones I've gathered:

1770 - Evanie
1773 - Joanne
1898 - Sammie Louise
1912 - Sophie Jayne
4571 - Karen
4573 - Sheila
4574 - Caprice
4611 - Star
4613 - Charlotte Louise
4694 - Gwenda Iris

Photo of Reading 26, is actually YN17 OML, while Reading 26 is YN17 ONL.

Hybrid on 79.

Just a thought to try to improve some of the services with the South Birmingham review fairly soon.

1) Five Ways - Edgbaston Cricket Ground - Moseley - Acocks Green - Gospel Oak
Changes: Will terminate at Acocks Green, en route for Gospel Oak. See 31 for
         services between Acocks Green & Gospel Oak.

2) Birmingham - Sparkhill - Billesley - Warstock - Maypole
3) Birmingham - Sparkhill - Billesley - Yardley Wood
Changes: 2 & 3 rerouted between City & Yardley Wood Road, serving Bordesley Middleway,
         A4540 Highgate Road & Stoney Lane.
         Showell Green Lane will no longer be served by service 2.

5) Birmingham - Sparkhill - Sarehole Mill - Shirley - Widney Manor - Solihull
Changes: Will no longer continue beyond Shirley, towards Solihull. See new service X7 for
         these areas.

X7) Birmingham - non stop to Shirley - Widney Manor - Solihull Town Centre - Solihull Station
Changes: New service, will operate every 20 minutes Monday to Saturday daytime,
         every 30 minutes Evenings & Sundays. Flexible routing to avoid traffic
         between Shirley, Saracens Head & Birmingham city centre.

Not quite done yet, but that's a rough overview of what I've got so far.

Pulsars coming back to Cannock.

I'm assuming we're on about 3792-95, the ones currently at Derby?

4836 - 8
4881 - 21
4882 - 13
4883 - 4
4884 - 11

@Tony 4881 was on the 8/8A, not the 21. Did the 12:11 ex Potters Green for Coventry Station

I think there may be a few disputes ahead of us in the queue! Plus that would mean new trains and I doubt we're high up the priority list for those somehow.

I'm willing to bet that 323's & 350's could be refitted, although i do seem to remember something about 350's being incompatible with DOO gear (could be wrong there).
But yeah, we're gonna be in for a lot of trouble, assuming the franchisee decides to go for DOO, which, if it's Govia, let's hope they learnt a lesson with Southern...

2515 (Solo SR) on the Alvaston's in Derby earlier

2159 is now at Derby, was on the 7 (Bus Station to Sinfin) earlier

Does anyone have the names for these Tridents?

4441 (and what ticket branding does this carry?)
4469
4471

Ta

4471 is ''Alana Alicia''

I think the Burton-Lichfield X12s interwork with another route in Burton

@John They interwork with the 812 on both ends, i believe, as the past twice i did the 812, it changed to an X12 at Lichfield

Just been thinking since the 75 was run to Darlaston from Birmingham only a couple of weeks before it was withdrawn Here's three possible solutions I can think off To get a Link to Darlaston to Birmingham It could have some potential as the 75 was getting good loadings from Darlo.

Extend Route 79 back to Birmingham via It's old Route and or Smethwick
Create a new route from Wednesbury to Birmingham like the 75 did before being extending to Darlo and Withdrawn Number It 79A then go Via Friar Park Charlemount, West Bromwich Then Limited Stop to Birmingham Via 74 route

Or Create a A limited stop service from Darlaston to Birmingham number it X75 limited stop via 38 Route to Wednesbury then limited stop via old 75 route to West Bromwich from Wednesbury then Limited Stop From West Bromwich to Birmingham Via 74 Route. Then you will have connections again between Darlo, and Wednesbury Birmingham

There was a reason the 79 was split...
And that was because it was long enough that congestion on either end doomed the route. Same reason with the 75, and it carried mostly thin air, when it went to Darlaston. I think the largest amount of people I saw on it was about 4, and I highly doubt any of those had came all the way from Birmingham...
No one would sit on a bus for near 80-90 minutes to go from Darlaston to Birmingham, especially when it would be miles quicker to just get a 34/37/39/333X/334 into Bradford Place, and change to a train, potentially almost an hour quicker.

A limited stop 75 would offer no journey time saving other than not having to constantly stop and start, as Soho Road is like that anyway. Same with Dudley Road. The days of those sorts of Limited Stop services along Soho Road died off with the 979 in the early noughties...
Wednesbury is already connected to Birmingham anyway. It's called the Midland Metro, and it's much quicker than any 75 or mental derivative

So no, its only potential would be people who are too lazy to change bus at West Bromwich, or in the case of the ''79A'' are already well enough served (remember, the 40 is every 6 minutes roughly, and the 41 is half hourly, I think). And I'm willing to bet most people would just go to either Walsall, or Bilston for getting into Birmingham anyway, meaning if the 75 had stayed, it would still be fighting a losing battle...