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I agree, I mean I'm surprised TFWM haven't actually put their foot down yet and said they want a comapny livery, as I heard when Chaserider ran the 19 and still with their walsall services 36 and 36A apparently TFWM kick up a fuss when they used 5002 which had D&G on it, and I'm sure they didn't like the fact that bus 2 the white enviro 200MMC was not in company livery, I'm sure it will all be sorted but if they are planning on taking all these tender routes on and expanding the business they need to have a comapny livery at least, and their depot isn't the biggest of places either.

Unless Carolean are adopting Vision's for their own fleet livery? After all, the fleet does have fleet names on for Carolean...

3 - Merry Hill - West Brom (evenings)
23 - Wednesbury - Willenhall
41 West Brom - Wednesbury
224 Bilston - Sedgley

19 is retained

The 3? 224? What the? Blimey! *sees stars*

and that is exactly my point. IMO there is no way a large property developer like SEGRO will ever want to fund a bus service themselves. They are in business to make massive amounts of money from building new warehouse estates which they do very well.

Under the previous government regime I reckon the taxpayers full funding of this bus service extension was there and it is cleverly hidden within the massive state grant the property developer banked many moons ago direct from HM government in London. So taxpayers money is involved but kept well out of reach from the local authority. No doubt SEGRO was happy to sit on this funding for a while as well.

I guess the situation with buses running around with lots of empty seats will eventually improve and no doubt the taxpayers contribution will tail off at that point?

Unless its Section 106 funded like I believe what the Peddimore services (64/X64/68) are.

Unless they're planning to close it by stealth

Got a fine in ealing for literally being in a box less than 10 secs, what is holding them back with sorting traffic technology out here ?.

It depends on if Brum CC have powers to issue PCNs for PCN Code 31J.

West Midlands Police will still be able to enforce moving traffic contraventions

Will be interesting to see what this looks like in BCT livery!
https://bustimes.org/vehicles/tnxb-6148

Hopefully it will see some use in service before the 1st September!

Ooh, it'll be nice to photo that when I'm up in Blackpool on the weekend of BDoY :-)

I probably had caught it as well, but my memory has gone to pot!

I was looking at the ebay listings and there's a timetable from 1990 showing 96/97/98 with 98 listed as "Chelmsley Hoppa" with no additional info. Would that have done a route that the 694 subsequently did when the 96/97 got curtailed to Pine Square in the early 2000s?

This was the 694

They extended the 6 from Solihull to the airport didn't last long from memory.

Went via Damsonwood iirc

The 96 and 97 were never curtailed to Pine Square
The 98 was short route around Chelmsley Wood, it was originally a minibus circular route, H in one direction and J in the other direction. Not sure what route it/they took.

The route of the H is attached

Considering the work that is already underway on building the new stations at Moseley, Kings Heath and Pineapple Road, it would be a bigger waste of money if these weren't finished off and reopened.

Camp Hill is safe

Out of curiosity, does anyone know how did the 27 turn at Toll Bar End? Was it where the Stonebridge island is, or was it further up the road?

Selection of photos from the Dudley Grand Prix diversions from Friday (when Castle Street in Dudley had the TRO reversed, so the One Way was the opposite way round)

30706 YJ62JXW (formerly registered WEZ556) on the 17 - https://www.trainbasher.com/yj62jxw/

32133 YJ12CHH on the 27A - https://www.trainbasher.com/yj12chh/

32230 SN68AHW on the 229 - https://www.trainbasher.com/sn68ahw/

32297 SK68TXM on the 18 - https://www.trainbasher.com/sk68txm/

32284 SM13NDJ on the 25 (funnily enough, I think it was Midland Red West's 285 and 234 services which were the last Kidderminster routes to run in Dudley before Diamond KR gained duties on the 25) - https://www.trainbasher.com/sm13ndj/

SC69AMC (formerly TE69TSE) is seen in Dudley on last Friday on Castle Street - https://www.trainbasher.com/te69tse/

Selection of photos from the Dudley Grand Prix diversions from Friday (when Castle Street in Dudley had the TRO reversed, so the One Way was the opposite way round)

4768 BV57XKM - https://www.trainbasher.com/bv57xkm/

801 BX62SBY on the 2A - https://www.trainbasher.com/bx62sby/

4840 BX61LNH on the 126 - https://www.trainbasher.com/bx61lnh/

4838 BX61LNF on the 126 - https://www.trainbasher.com/bx61lnf/

6990 SK19ERY on the 87 - https://www.trainbasher.com/sk19ery/

826 BX62SZC on the 14A - https://www.trainbasher.com/bx62szc/

@the trainbasher, Geminis are usual to see on the 74.

Ah, fair enough, tbf I thought they were unusual as I haven't been out much photographing the last couple of years (knee issues). Cheers for clarifying that @Jack