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A few tweaks are going to occur on 1st March....
Amended timetable for services 4 and 23.
Service 6/6A is reverting back to run along Herald Avenue towards Tanyard Farm.  ::)
No indication yet if the affected stop on Tile Hill Lane will be covered with the 10.

Does the 6/6A use all of Tile Hill Lane (between Hearsall Common and the A45) in both directions currently? I think it does. It seems from 1/3/20 using that section of Tile Hill Lane inbound only.

The 'Tile Hill' destination for services 4 and 10 are somewhat vague and neither of which serve anywhere near the district centre at Jardine Crescent.
If it was up to me I would have the 4 display 'Tile Hill Village' and 10 display 'Torrington Avenue' - despite both terminating at the same location but it'll be à la former 10/11 services to Eastern Green/Broad Lane.

'Tile Hill South' has been displayed previously - which is geographically about right!

That depends on what the 191 allocation was made up of, B7RLE's are longer @ 12M than any Nationals / Fleetlines  / Metrobuses etc, then buses aren't parked so tightly together in depots these days due to health & safety, there's dedicated marked parking lanes with much wider gaps between parked buses which will also reduce capacity slightly. Not sure who much is already parked outside/up the side overnight.

In 1986-87 etc Metrobuses, Fleetlines & Nationals indeed dominated - not sure how many are parked outside, but a good 40 or more I should think. So that still leaves around 120 inside - which is quite a lot. c.190 was probably the peak number ever housed at WT, with a very gentle decline ever since, bar an upturn in 2018/19.

This is actually the normal route followed by services from the south into and out of Nuneaton.

The forthcoming 20 timetable and map is now on the NXC website - https://nxbus.co.uk/coventry/information/service-changes/new-20-route-extension-to-nuneaton

No separate service number for Nuneaton journeys (bearing in mind service 20 as far as Bedworth still run) I note. So no '20D' or even a 20N.

I'd have thought that NXC may be limited on how much they could potentially expand by the size of the existing Wheatly Street allocation, the current allocation seems already higher than it has been for a long time, not sure what max capacity is?

In Jan 1987, 191 buses were based at WT - so including the current 170 based now (+ NX coaches) there's room for a few more I should think!

Looking at the NXC website the extended 20 traverses (after Mill St, Bedworth)...Leicester Road, B4113 Coventry Road, Coton Road, Vicarage Street, Back Street, Nuneaton Bus Station and returns in an anti-clockwise direction from Nuneaton Bus Station via Newtown Road, Roanne Ringway, Coton Road, B4113 Coventry Road, Leicester Road and back to Mill Street. Although it is not an area I'm totally familiar with.

Coventry East side. Remember a while back when NXC started competing with the 86 and sending the 3 (was it the 3?) out of the city to Binley Woods? Could it happen again with the Warwickshire Shop Park 23 route being extended?

The old 3 & 4 was extended to Brandon/Binley Woods, and at the other end of the route, Bedworth at various times in the past - not totally sure at the same time though.

Picture of 4677 here:
https://theboar.org/2020/01/breaking-national-express-bus-sets-fire-on-westwood-campus/

I've seen worse! and 4677 didn't erupt into flames, although I assume there is still significant damage.

Engine fire on a double deck bus at Cannon Park, Coventry...
https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/passengers-evacuated-double-decker-bus-17541120

Bustimes.org indicates it was 4677 on a 10A

A very fuzzy picture has appeared on Facebook apparently showing 4677 - mostly smoke/steam drifting out from the rear. So seemingly fairly serious.

I remember Volvo SD in Coventry a couple of years back and a Trident in Dudley just off the top of my head. Seem to remember a decker in Coventry too. None of them arson.

I was just noting that it was interesting how there was no helpful link to the news article with accompanying 'oops'

That would have been 2151 on NXC service 16 on 20/5/18 and 4401 on the same service on 7/11/17. Older Tridents 4203 were lost to fire too, on 17/10/18 and 4224 was damaged by fire on 1/8/17 and eventually sold for scrap. While four CV vehicles sounds bad, the period before, stretching back many years, saw hardly any serious fires at all (I can only think of the arson damage 4218 sustained back in 2001).

The vast majority of buses parked up for the night won't be under cover it seems. Perhaps Wheatley Street, Coventry will go down as the last all-under-cover garage built in the West Midlands (admittedly quite a few are parked outside there too).

How on earth can "via Coventry" be an improvement ? Given that most routes operate within
the Coventry boundary "via Coventry" is absurd and totally unhelpful to most travellers. I also
find it rather insulting.
I agree there was a problem before September with "via City Centre" as the generic default but NX
Coventry vehicles never seem to have much flexibility with destination displays particularly in the era
of digital display

Think I agree with that, not sure 'via Coventry' is very satisfactory - I know 'Coventry' is referring to the city centre. Not sure about insulting, but it looks a bit lazy!

I hadn't realised the GOG/N Fleetlines survived well into 1987, I assumed they were around for a few months after deregulation and that was that - but not so. It would seem that last of those withdrawals and the first withdrawals of the 6301-6420 batch weren't that far apart.

Been using them for many years
The coaches are all Cxxx, many carried the number in that format initially, although later replaced the C with their allocation and the neat fleet is all Axxx

Yes, so a long history of alpha-numeric fleet 'numbers'. Starting E001 means the 4-digit system can be retained, its going to be a very time indeed before E1000 is ever reached!

Fleetnumbers will be

E001-E019 (Yardley Wood)
E020-E029 (Coventry)

Not often have we seen alpha-numeric fleet identities (the old ex-Corporation fleets had a letter added to the end of their local fleet numbers) but I have a 1987 WMT fleet-list showing No's M1-M10, which were Ford Transit/Carlyle B55-64 AOP. I assume these became 555-564 though.