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Why did Nx not reduce the journey times for the likes of the 4,4H and 4M. Anybody with a brain travelling on this route would use diamond considering they are running a 10 minute frequency service with incredibly fast running time?

4 4Hs running in convoy currently in blackheath. I suppose that's what happens when you put a 10 minute frequency alongside a stupidly tight timetable

Hmmmmm! I don't live anywhere near Walsall but a couple of days this week I've seen either 42/43 or 31/32 branded buses on the 002 so I beg to differ.

I think you will find the 31/32 branded vehicles only appear on the 002 peak boards, where they are running together with a streetlite.

Is there any reason why the 31/32 branded seem to be escaping onto other single deck routes?

I  can understand swopping single deck & double decks round , to give a better balance but surely the 31/32's should be staying on their own routes, or is this down to parking in the depot again?

(There's only 6 for Nx isn't there, with 5 operational currently,  & surely the  Pvr currently for both Nx & Diamond is more than that?)

There was one on the 4H yesterday

I think 4125 was on 51 according to bus times today

If he hadn't moved out of Downing Street for 12 months you'd be moaning he'd gone missing and didn't know what was going on.

For once I actually agree with you. The man is under constant scrutiny regardless of how he goes about his business

Does any other company near the midlands still use T and Y reg darts?

Has Karl crashed some of the platinum MMCs at PN?
Seen 2 red mmcs on the 9 yesterday and saw 4756 on x10 today which for a Sunday seems rare

The 900 used to run Hasbury to Coventry as a Timesaver from deregulation in 1986, before being split at B'ham to form 900 B'ham to Coventry & 19 Hasbury to B'ham.

Hasbury to Coventry only took circa 90 mins, did it end to end a number of times

How did it do that in 90 mins?

Or perhaps it's they have looked at data from the ticket machine where smart passes and contactless show passengers journies and matched where most people make connections, not just asked people to guess what would be good routes to join up.

Will the hagley road services link with the X1 and X2 then as per diagram?

A friend of mine sent me this.

Some of the coloured lines do seem to match whatever colour branding that area's buses use (for example, Harborne is red and Selly Oak/University is a lightish blue).

Stourbridge- Coventry - that will be like a 2.5 hour trip

That's a coincidence, as this Flickr account seems to have been very active in the Huntingree Road, Whitley Avenue, Stourbridge Road areas of Hasbury:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/189323366@N05/

Hate to tell you buddy but:
A) I don't take pictures of buses
B) my names not Kieran

But good one winston nice try

The thing is you know Walsall don't operate the 4H on a Sunday and it could of been a pensnett b7, theres too much dead milage between Halesowen and Walsall plus the 4H InterWorks with the 14 evenings and Sundays

I've been following the lockdown rules and therefore don't have a clue what goes on anymore! Excuse me for following the rules and therefore not leaving the house much. If only others followed the rules we would have been out of lockdown ages ago!

Well you didn't

Blunt as usual

I could have sworn I saw a WA style B7RLE on the 4H. Would have been at 2:00 in Hayley green area