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66805 MX05CCU has turned up at AG in the new yellow & green training livery

At Adderly Green there are a lot less stored vehicles since the kast time I was here. All the ex First Manchester/Diamond loanees have now moved on. Also VOR 65692,65706, 65706 have gone too. Still present are withdrawn E300s 67602, 67631, 67639 and 67649 along with Sheffield streetlite 63386 which has been here for months now. New addition is Volvo B12 20612

The recent First group changes are on the main site
http://wmbusphotos.com/Fleetchanges/First.html

I saw 6 Enviro 400's today parked up at Adderley Green depot. Their positioning made identification of most difficult, but 33733 is one of them. Here for prep before moving to Leicester maybe? All are still in standard first group livery with Diamond stickers covering the First logos at present.

Before it started working again, I contacted the person who runs the website asking about why Potteries wasn't showing. A few days later it worked again.
You can contact them by scrolling right to the bottom of the bustimes page and pressing contact.

Thank you, did just that and potteries reappeared yesterday afternoon

Once again, the First Potteries fleet has completely disappeared from the bustimes.org/vehicles tracking map. All vehicles, barring the odd anomaly, had been showing daily for the last few weeks or more but the map around Stoke has been blank since 3rd June.
Does anyone know why this is, and what (if anything) can be done to rectify the situation? This service is so useful for knowing when your bus is actually going to show up, especially if you're having to rely on bus travel in these current times for work etc.

Does anyone know if First have put 32081's old ticket machine in 32643?

Yes it is in 32643, saw it yesterday on the 6 with the bustimes.org tracker showing as 32081

If these are Solos that I think you are referring too, then one is to become a spare for the seat belted Solo on Herefordshire contracts and the other is to donate its engine to the first one and then be scrapped. I'm not sure which bus is the one to be refurbished though.

Apparently, Worcester may be receiving some Mercedes Citaros for the 35 route, just gossip at the moment but those in 'the know' hint things may happen in this direction.

Both are from Potteries. 53124 will be donating it's engine to 53207. The latter is a 2007 ex viola. The majority of sister vehicles to 53124 (ex first Essex 2002 reg) have been either scrapped or sold by first in the last 18 months or so

First have withdrawn the 11A which D&G have replaced with route 10. They are also removing many Sunday services and early morning/Evening journeys, some of which D&G are picking up. Details are on First Potteries website.

Parked up at Newcastle garage on Sunday were darts 41494/8 and more oddly Streetlites 63096/7/9. The latter have all been in service in the last week and i was not aware of any plans to move these to another operator.

63096 was back out yesterday in service on 6/11 circuit, so not sure why this and the other two Streetlites were at Newcastle garage over the weekend, however they appear to in fact be staying

66302 and 66305 have had their fronts painted to pick from red and had their branding removed. Presumably this is in preparation for the moving of all Volvos at Potteries to Leicester.

Parked up at Newcastle garage on Sunday were darts 41494/8 and more oddly Streetlites 63096/7/9. The latter have all been in service in the last week and i was not aware of any plans to move these to another operator.

Another E300 to receive the new livery is 67643. Darts 42552/3/4 have had their stoke station branding removed following service cuts that reduced the PVR of the 21/21a

All 3 recent arrivals from FMR 67647/8/9 have been out in service last week.

Since the service cuts on 24/4, all the solos remaining at Potteries seem to have been taken out of service. I visited the depot yesterday and there were 3 in the withdrawn corner all with not for use stickers displayed - 53124,53041&53207. The rest were nowhere to be seen.

Along with the 3 solos was 41520. I imagine that this is awaiting attention and not withdrawn

42892 was seen leaving AG around lunchtime yesterday for Worcester. This is the last of the 3 ex Midland Red darts scheduled to return to Worcester depot.

Another E300, 67642, was seen today at the depot in the new livery. Didn't notice 62647 about the yard, but it could've been in one of the sheds or even out in service

41502 was noted today leaving AG. It was being moved by Mansfield Group on suspended tow. I'm not certain of the destination, but I'd expect this will turn up later today at Worcester. They seem to inherit our more challenging repair projects in recent times.