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DVSA seem to like arriva buses on the patch at Dudley bus station lately

Thats interesting cause the other fare table shows different lol

It's Harts hill, Canal Street on the wayfarer too

Except the x10 I think they were ontime

The X10 doesn't go through them

@Trident 4194 were the 244's running on time today or didn't you notice?

And again today

And it can bloody well go back too!!!

Hope you weren't too busy @karl724223  8)

829 is still out of action awaiting parts by the looks of it

Being rebuilt from what I could see

Nice. Looking forward to seeing what shade of green the X10 will be.
Soon we'll have some forum members getting all excited over the Platinums fifty shades of green.

Same as the 9 no doubt

For anyone that hasn't seen the 126 branding, it's a lovely shade of green. The same as the 957

Only 2 mercs an excel and a B10 left at Pensnett now

A lot faster?

Yes

@Tony the combination of the 9 and 002/004 is a quicker route than the x10.
The 9 is most direct route from stoutbridge to bham so surely should receive platinum treatment.
I guess that the mileage is already quite high on the BC platinums, so running them into the ground on the 9 would be a bad idea.
The electric volvos are for the 120.
Stoutbridge isn't as neglected as some areas, we just seem to have the worst buses from enthusiasts point of view.
I'm guessing no more e200s can be purchased?

The X10 is an Express route between Birmingham city centre and Halesowen, it is a LOT faster than the 9. It is NOT an express service to merry hill. Passengers have even started waving the 9 past to catch the X10.

my post 769  branded nine on the four seen at messy hell @pndriver

This one @karl724223 ?

The rationale for PN not having new Platinums has already been explained, the new ones have Voith gearboxes and PN already has a sizeable fleet of ZF ones. No garages are having both types.

Relative to fleet size PN must have had one of the largest influx of new or nearly new buses than any other garage over the last 4 years.

And we're having new Electric buses next year too

Only because NE were forced into it because the original E400s were in need of replacing.

Thwe X10, well look at it, an express service to replace the 141 which on certain journeys takes more time than the 141, surely the premium service is the 9 operating for the most hours in the West Midlands of any service.

Someone hasn't heard the latest X10 rumours

6109 on X10 departing Merry Hill at 1450