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If Bustimes is correct, 8023 was on the X29 this morning!

EDIT: it's probably not 8023 since 8023 is now also tracking on the 48.

It's 3120

Yes, I found it out myself. Weird that it's running a Thurmaston-run service today!

Anyone got any clue over what's tracking on the 153 under the number T021?

E400EV DM01-MD (AR74 ZEB) was spotted at St. Margaret's Bus Station today. I'm kinda gutted I didn't spot it, especially since I was actually in Leicester today! Oh, well, can't be much longer!

I believe I've spotted one of the newly converted Streetdecks just now, in the depot when I passed on the Skylink.

An engineer would likely have to do this.

All the same, a reasonably simple fix.

I'm guessing that by offloading Megabus, Stagecoach didn't want to get too involved, or they knew what was coming.

I thought Stagecoach sold off Megabus because National Express wanted to buy Stagecoach.

Presume a casualty of Flixbus expansion with the same low fares / no frills model

And, at least in my local area, a terrible choice of stopping locations.

Oh O.K. I would say not ideal then as this renders the system pointless

I assume that given it's presumably electronically controlled, the stop-start system could just be switched off altogether.

If Bustimes is correct 4761 was out today and Saturday

Yes, I've seen it myself both today and yesterday.

I suspect 4439 has been repainted recently. It looks quite shiny at the moment, and Bustimes suggests it was not in service from August until a few days ago.

To answer my own question: it looks fairly obvious. Those scratches on the corners of the roof are gone. Inevitably it is still in the Journey Mark livery. Either the painters up at Bootle used cheap paint or their bus wash was too harsh.

I suspect 4439 has been repainted recently. It looks quite shiny at the moment, and Bustimes suggests it was not in service from August until a few days ago.

It also appears to have broken down the last time it was used so almost certainly the end as there's no point in repairing it for less than a week of use.

I noticed it yesterday parked in the naughty boys corner so I guess your probably right

4760 hasn't been able to do a day's work for nearly a month. I wouldn't be surprised if 4760 is de facto withdrawn already.
4761 also seems to have become scarce recently.

The link on Arriva 3148 on the main page leads to 3137's page instead

I notice Chalfont's are becoming a Flixbus subcontractor too, I assume they've lost their NX work & are defecting to the opposition the same as Whippet did.

I spotted their freshly repainted BV67 JZA in Leicester yesterday. Weird to think that it was with NatEx just last month!

The fleet manager retired or redundancy a few years back. It's any man's game now to number the fleet.
Agree though, it would be a doddle to renumber and have a midlands/south fleet list. Not sure why it's been done??

Or one for the entire group as most of the other big groups do.

The ex-Liverpool E400s also have had some nonsense renumbering, where some kept their original NW numbers and others got renumbered in an illogical order. I think it would have been better to simply swap the second 4 in their numbers for a 3 and renumber them into the vacant 43xx series, putting them behind the 14/64 plates in the 44xx series. The E200 MMCs from elsewhere also suffer from a lack of proper order between the fleet number and the registration plates. But only the Midlands can be to blame for the way the Pulsar Geminis were numbered.

Speaking of numbers, 4401 seems to be tracking as the old 4101.

I also spotted the new 4425 parked in a layby on the A6 northbound north of the Broadnook roundabout.