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35E Allens Croft. 4720 outside Selfridges just now

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4763 - 48E to Londonderry Queens Head from West Bromwich, spotted in West Smethwick

6979 (82/87) - 12

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6989 on the 87E to Spring Hill Tesco from Dudley. It's 12 minutes late, meaning it's running in tandem with the next service, allocated 6815

idk how this is noteworthy when wasn't the 126 platinum at one point?

Yeah, some of the previous 8/X8 buses were branded https://flic.kr/p/UYfbhN

4910 - 47E to Turves Green. Seen outside New Street station

E011 (6) - 35

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These "non smart hybrid" Platinum Enviro400s are quickly becoming my new favourite buses, they sound a lot more tuneful and less dull than their smart hybrid counterparts, 6815 and 6818 in particular are ones that stand out to me, they're very reminiscent of those Voith ALX 400/Trident 2s that were meant for Stagecoach

6825 side LED destination blind not working.

Passed it yesterday on X1 at BHX at 15.20hrs approx.

Side and rear not working. Spotted on the 61/63 yesterday

From a driving point of view the one WB had on loan from pennsnet 6104 i think, it was awful to drive it had the dreadful zf ecomatic  box and the brake pedal was stiff no feel at all. Some might know i'm not a fan of MMc's

Are the ZF examples worse to drive than the Voith equivalents, in your opinion?

I can confirm 4693 is on the 87 today. 4690 is on the 80 too, first time I've seen an '05 Gemini in at least 10 days

80E to Five Ways, 6966. Seen just now on Windmill Lane

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6116, those 15 reg Enviro 400 MMCs are cracking buses, they seem to rattle a lot less than their platinum equivalents (of a voith persuasion anyway)

I was expecting to hear every bump and pothole, as per my usual experience, but they accelerate really smoothly and handle bumps better than I've experienced on any other ADL product.

Hard to believe they're 9 years old, NX got these spot on, users of the 11 are very lucky to have these

It helps if you quote a fleet number and the route you were travelling on.

Don't forget, just because a bus has the equipment installed, doesn't mean that all routes are programmed in yet.

Seems a bit redundant if it's been happening to every single platinum I've been on in the last 5 days, over multiple garages

If it were just 2 or 3, I would've mentioned the particular fleet numbers

As someone who catches the 80 almost everyday, I've definitely been seeing the Geminis less.

Come to think of it, I haven't seen an '05 plate in weeks, I thought it was just the non-Euro 6 ones that were going? Happy to be corrected on that