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6971 has arrived and branded.

4923 now back at WB any idea what's gone in its place?

4914/18

Anyone know what 4957 is on today

79

I'm guessing allocations will be out soon?

first batch confirmed for WB 82/7

Some new delivery's in the coming weeks..

There's a 87 afternoon running board which does a school then private to Dudley bus station to do the peak time extra 1625ish where the service becomes every 5 minutes , when it gets to brum it stays on the 82,s till 2100ish , it use to be 87/24 running card but since the sept 19 changes where 2 buses were removed not certain which board it is now.

87/23

1947 WB82/87

It's always struck why the 89 has never followed the 82/87 on the City loop. I'd leave the X7 at Colmore being the express service of the 87.

On several occasions after serving the key areas of the City loop we had to drive straight through Colmore Row without picking up passengers as the vehicles were already exceeding the maximum capacity. Passengers with suitcases,pushchairs,shopping trolleys,4-5 primark bags it was chaos not to forget the weekends with the large groups of Balaji temple customers on the 87 from New street station purchasing family tickets. The current route does work well 15-20 passengers out of Colmore Row no pushing, shoving, squabbling just a bit of weed smoking.

4679 AG -WB

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Currently sat on 6842 on the A45 with a *currently* undetermined fate

Apparently, a warning light has popped up on the dash and the driver is currently awaiting further instructions from the engineers as to whether or not it is safe to continue. As much as I understand the safety aspect of this issue, it does come as an inconvenience to a bus full of passengers.

edit: transferred onto the bus behind, 6846, that has skipped out Meriden now* - presumably due to delays

*didn't miss Meriden out in its entirety; came off the A45 and joined Maxstoke Lane to at least stop at the Caravan Club.



In my own experience, I'm finding the 66 plates to become evermore increasingly unreliable. I had 6833 on the X2 the other week, and the engine temporarily gave out under Bordesley Station. Fortunately, we were able to continue after a bit.

Buses work very hard and don't get much rest, they work upto 22 hrs a day, 364 days a year with only Christmas Day off and your moaning if one breaks down.

4509 and 4511 had landed at WB when I finished earlier.

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/dundee/793097/breaking-two-people-injured-in-accident-with-bus-in-dundee-city-centre/

Good to see a gemni in Oldbury it's been a while.
I read in the garage newsletter that westbrom should be getting a heritage liveried bus at sometime during 2019 look forward to it.

Much needed, 12A/13 can't cope with the passenger loadings between the busy Bearwood and City corridor during the peak period with the current single deckers.

Wasn't the 979 itself a limited stop route, though?

Yeap and it never worked eventually towards the end it stopped at every stop.

82/87 since septembers closure of paradise circus Dudley rd now terminates in colmore row as most of you know, on the evening boards we now get a useful 7 minutes drop back in colmore row, these 7 minutes makes a big difference knowing you have them , it just makes getting the bus up Dudley rd so much easier,  most of us drivers feel more relaxed being on there plus it's nice to start journeys on time. Some of the slack has been taken out by removing spring hill tesco as a timing point thank you very much to the powers that be and further minute taken off grove lane timing point which all equates to very happy punters at cape hill because bus hasn't Stopped at timing points dragging out the journey, I get a lot of thank you driver at capehill from vast majority on the bus which is a huge difference from being constantly hassled at timing points.
We drivers hope that NX leaves the Dudley rd at colmore row rather than dragging it all over the city especially carrs lane ,dale end of brum which is far to congested .
I haven't heard any complaints from customers that these services no longer serve moor st or new st directly.

Yes us Dudley Rd drivers do love it no more getting slaughtered with passenger loadings or bottles and cans rolling around but there's only one clear winner and that's the X7 drivers with posh busses wizzing around empty not having to stop at bus stops.
No point in running a bus if it ain't gonna stop at stops leave that for the coaches, someone got the two mixed up me think.