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The next order, which is likely to start delivery later this year, that I cannot give details of yet, but it will not be BYD

I'm predicting Electroliners for 4/4A. Then remaining single deckers get given to 8A/8C to replace Omnilinks (unless that get DD's) or 72 (if 72 can handle single deckers - to get rid of the B7TLS)

When franchising happens in WM, do u think they will follow London or Manchester's method?

London: Operators have their own depot and bid for routes
Manchester: Council owns the depot and the vehicles and the operator bids for it


^ think thats how they work, correct me if im wrong

Just for a bit of fun, what does your crystal ball see for next year?



I'll start with the following...


NX Bus's plan to have 300 new electric buses in service 'by December 2024' delayed until 2025 due to issues with getting chargers installed at garages.

Stagecoach to actually announce an order of electric buses for its Leamington, Nuneaton and Rugby garages, so that Coventry can become an all-electric bus city in 2025.

NX Coventry to announce and place an order for single-deck EVs.

Richard Parker to become the new Labour mayor of the West Midlands, and plans to franchise buses to be accelerated.

Opening of new rail stations at Moseley, Kings Heath and Pineapple Road delayed until 2025.

NX Bus announce locations of new garages in Longbridge and Kitts Green to replace the Birmingham Central depot.

Stagecoach to announce and open a new depot in Birmingham/Solihull.

The 20 hydrogen buses at Walsall will be used all day every day of the week.

Looks like this was accurate 

Saw this too

just seen an article that Walsall garage has been purchased by WMCA , is this genuine or fake news reason i say that the article i saw was a screen shot could have doctored as they say
just been on WMCA website there is information regarding purchase by  the Investment board  many pdf files etc etc reagarding minutes of meetings etc

72 totally single deck operated so far anyone know why haven't seen that happen in a long while?

Only took over 6 years for NX to switch the allocations for the 4/4A and 72 hopefully it stays forever

My understanding was that only vehicles expected to still be in service for another five years (from 2023) would get the grey repaint.

That takes us up to 2028. NX have set themselves a target of having a 100% zero emission fleet by 2030.

With the Eclipse 2 B7RLEs getting the grey treatment, that tells me the single decks will be the last to be replaced.

The earliest E400s won't last until 2028 I would imagine, though they've still got another few years left in them.

What even happened to TFWM's plan to have all trains, trams and buses into the TFWM livery.
it seemed pretty smart tbf

Today, when I arrived at Wolverhampton garage to swap electrics over I found a 'spotter' just wandering around all the electric buses which are parked at the far end of the yard. When challenged he confirmed he hadn't even asked for permission.

He was not one of the usual kids, but an older man who thought it was OK to just march into private property and even just ignored me initially when he saw me.

This is not acceptable and people wonder why some NX staff are so anti enthusiast.

Yikes, Tbf atleast the West Midlands isn't like London where you get an army of 12 year olds filming buses at rush hour to post it on their horrible YouTube/Tiktok channels.

I'll try and find the website and link it, somewhere I was sent it by someone, I have a screenshot of it too, but not too sure how to link photos. I just wanted to know if it is true or not, but I'm assuming it's fake news because as you said national express covered the 002 route under the X21 route.

Did you find it on discord?

Diamond have registered a 'new' X20 service from Solihull to Coventry:
https://www.vehicle-operator-licensing.service.gov.uk/search/find-registered-local-bus-services/details/596862/

Looks like they're keeping the X20 service number then.

Hm, on google maps it shows a new 82 service Coventry to Solihull, starts running from 25th July? It would make sense for there not to be 2 X20's