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What is the regular type used on the 765/X65 linking Tamworth to Lichfield?

not that much as an enthusiast as most of the arriva pulsars are actually decent plus I love an E300. still I see them pretty packed kinda often

Plus if they're used on lightly loaded trips it does'nt matter too much,especially if they're heading into Birmingham.  

Prob a decent spec if ex cardiff

It will be. I live just over the mountain from Cardiff. Incidentally they took two. 

And hopefully no Labour Mayor here - Andy Street has done a fair job in the grand scheme of things, dealing with the Covid period, etc. As long as there aren't any more global pandemics or similar, passenger numbers will increase next year and hopefully support operators to start being proactive again with new routes.

Andy Burnham to realise that money does not grow on trees, and the Bee livery has to be rebranded as 'U' instead (standing for unmitigated tax payer disaster!)

Agreed,given who runs-allegedly-the City Council in Birmingham. And on Mr Photo Op-as I call Burnham-he has no functioning brain.  

*Blackwood

Cwmbran sort of is and sort of isn't.  You can drive straight off the stand, if there isn't a bus on the stand in front. 

You missed Merthyr off it.

I'd leave it to January. 

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Im imagining the little ba#tards mums probably had them at 11, never worked in their lives , and the dads are probably living with em but claiming seperately, probably on fake mental health saying they cant go out the house except for drug dealing 🤣🤣🤣

...and robbing.... 

Saw a Wright Eclipse 2 bus today in NX grey but with a fleetnumber 702 on the back. Not 2002 as that has a red stripe but this one didn't.  Heading down Penn Road out of service around 9.00am.
Any ideas?

It's for Oxford Bus. 

https://www.route-one.net/news/stagecoach-west-unveils-poppy-liveried-oxford-tube-coach/ <-- it weren't that one, so it must've been one of the other transfers. I'm off work until Wednesday and I only go into Oxford on a Tuesday so I may not get to see it if they rewrap it after the weekend.

Which brings me onto... the branding down in Oxford for Stagecoach (and Oxford Bus Company) is a complete mess.

I've seen "Coastliner 700" branding amongst the many, many different stages of Stagecoach livery (in various states of distress) as well as some High Wycombe branded buses (on the 11x for OBC).

Try Scania 15989. 

They have got a bus fully wrapped in a Royal British Legion decal as well. I think I saw it around Oxford last week. A number of the buses there also had poppies on the front of their buses.

That will be one of the ex South Scanias or,possibly,be 50452-one of the recently transferred coaches for the Oxford Tube.  

As at 7/11/23

BC: 4491 (Engine swap); 4827 (RTC repairs); 4986 (RTC repairs & refurb)
CV: 4770 (MoT)
PB: 4605 (front dome repair); 4628
MS: 2204; 4854; 7023 (all engine repairs)
WA: 1794; 1798; 2147; 4842; 4959 (loans for service); 5402 (for Trailways for roof repair); 6709 (RTC repairs)
YW: 6841 (RTC repair)

Hartshornes: 2116; 2127; 5502; 5510
Paint: 2165; 2170; 2172; 2173; 4772; 4835; 4836; 4840; 4841

By my reckoning that makes all the 11reg Coventry examples have been through Walsall for a repaint in either the two tone blue or the grey livery.   

The 37 was the first to get those low-floor N-reg buses (the ones that knelt but still had two steps to get in there with). Was that when they were made single-decker?

They were followed the next year by the truly low-floor P-reg buses, which the first lot I think were on the 529? The low-floor double deckers began in the R-reg batch with a load of S-reg ones coming after.

From memory Walsall had them first on the 311/3.

Routes 328,481 and C1 had new tender announcements this morning. The 481 goes from London United to Metroline-presumably Brentford-while the 328 and C1 stay with Metroline and London United respectively. All will use existing buses,which presumably means Volvos at Brentford. The start dates are in May 24(for the 481) and June 24 for the other two.  

I remember the short Excels as they were based at my local Wolverhampton garage. They were numbered 401- 430 (with gaps) I think. Wolverhampton also had the longer length examples as well which were new to WMT.

401 to 422,no gaps. 

Stagecoach lost an E400 quite recently in Kent as well. Quite concerning.

19662 in Sussex.