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Carolean have a new depot in bescot now, I seen some of their buses and coaches parked there the other day. However buses still have legals as Darlaston. They have a new enviro 200 from vision bus on Friday I seen it still with vision bus logos on and their legals on. Reg is (YY64 GWC) this had paper blinds and paper legals with their new bescot legals.

Just seen it in Walsall. Still has Vision Bus logos on, but blinds are working.

Just seen that Stagecoach are going to be running an AV82 service from Birmingham to Villa Park on match days. Service will be starting from Dudley Street to Villa Park three hours before kick-off, then from Grosvenor Road to New Street after the match...

https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2024/march/28/New-express-city-centre-shuttle-buses-set-to-launch-on-matchdays/

I saw a couple of Jkt vehicles turning off Central Drive in Dudleys Fields into that industrial estate that leads to the old Bloxwich level crossing about 420pm today.

Didnt get the regs though.

We had a couple of vehicles returning from a private hire around that time. I think it would have been MY24 JKT and GT19 JKT.

J.K.T International have acquired a second Limited Edition Irizar i6s Efficient Treinta. MY24 JKT being number 24 of the 30 being built.

WA1886 is on PB16.

Solus appear to have lost the Sunday 71/71A tender between Sutton Coldfield and Chelmsley Wood, with Stagecoach Midlands taking back over from this Sunday.

PN2104 was on PBFD this morning.

AS09 PAN is out on the 19 this morning.

WB4764 on WA51.

Had a ride on YX11 AEO earlier. Seemed alright to fair. Whilst the vehicle may still be in Vision Bus colours, it has logos on which clearly state the company name. Drivers have uniform and hi-vizs.

Only negative points I would say are that the vehicles currently have no ticket machines at the moment nor any assault screen.

Regarding the fleet, I've been told they have x2 ex Vision Bus E200's, so I'm guessing that ex Panther Travel E200 would mean they have three.

It is only the first day though, so we will see how things go. But it is good to see new operators giving bus work a go in the West Midlands.

Following on from my post the other day, I had a ride on YX11 AEE to Bloxwich this morning. Much better than AEO the other day. Cab assault screen was evident, working CCTV is shown on the vehicle and to top it off I had a nice/happy driver who was telling me the service has apparently been quite busy over the last couple of days (which I can believe as 16 people boarded the service which I caught on Sunday)!

Fastline are based in Pleck, Carloean's depot is listed as Darlaston any link between the two or are they just using this as storage. As whenever I have past Fastline's depot they do sometimes have other coaches in the yard.
First Impressions, Bus is in a livery and has there name and legals on it better than Travel Express, Driver and Second Driver possibly are in a Uniform and have Hi Vi's Jackets on, there isn't any fare information that I could see but so far they don't look like a cowboy Operator. Will be interesting to see if they do get a livery either this Blue Livery or something else.

Had a ride on YX11 AEO earlier. Seemed alright to fair. Whilst the vehicle may still be in Vision Bus colours, it has logos on which clearly state the company name. Drivers have uniform and hi-vizs.

Only negative points I would say are that the vehicles currently have no ticket machines at the moment nor any assault screen.

Regarding the fleet, I've been told they have x2 ex Vision Bus E200's, so I'm guessing that ex Panther Travel E200 would mean they have three.

It is only the first day though, so we will see how things go. But it is good to see new operators giving bus work a go in the West Midlands.

Looks like Chaserider have a new vehicle, enviro 200, fleet number 522, it's a ex first Leicester vehicle, also looking at some photos on Flickr it's a ex compass vehicle too, YX18 KYA.

It's on the 19 today.

WN5408 is on WA31/32.
PB4820 is on WA6/7.
PN4752 is on WA51.
AG6108 is on WA51.

WN5408 is on WA788/6.
AG6108 is on WA935/937/X51/51.
PN4752 is on WAX51/51.

Eminence have also acquired ex Kevs YX61 GAO.