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From Monday 9th to Friday 13th December free bus travel from 1900 to 0259
All cards will be disabled at this time so they get free travel in case they scan by accident
On nx buses and other operators

It's free travel on the nite any way

Sadly it doesn't. I've witnessed cars going into the side of a bus that we've got at cov because they couldn't see the bus in the dark

That's called crap driving bud 

WMPTE had multiple shades of cream.

Standard practice in WMPTE was to repaint below the windows on any tatty buses which helped keep them looking good as that was the area in most peoples eyeline, but that meant several buses would run round with WMPTE blue below the windows and BCT stripes higher up.

The four different paintshops used (Tyburn Road, Walsall, Coventry & Carlyle Road) all painted the livery on in slightly different styles, so identical buses would be painted differently.

Painting below the lower window line would spruce up a majority of platinum's no end 

Question for Tony as he can only really answer it,  if the 09 plates ENVIRO 400s had stayed where would they have been transferred to,  just out of curiosity.

Ex Sutton Platinum's 6805/6/7 debranded now,  look  very presentable imo, not sure if advert frame will be fitted to cover the ghosting effect of old branding.

NXWM operates in the West Midlands where theres several football clubs , so should Wolverhampton buses be orange/black,  WB buses be blue/white , Coventry sky blue again, no idea what colours walsall football team use 

I saw 6803 in Dugley earlier it perfectly acceptable, yes you can see the ghosting effect from previous branding , I'm sure advert frames will cover majority of it.
6816 6817 at WB had the complete generic branding make over which is better .

NXs new moto is "to the bare minimum to save costs" now, it should explain why it's like that, certainly explains why their cutting corners and missing out parts in the new electrics livery too

I look at the Beenetwork Manchester that's low cost single yellow paintwork , TFL Buses same single red paintwork, its cost effective for big fleets. 
But no one is saying bare basics cost cutting about them

Everything struggles up that hill!

4748 was quite fast time I caught it.

4747 is a beast flies up city rd tividale and that is much steeper than newton rd 

Does anybody know why the 0000(today) Walsall to Dudley failed to show up? Couldn't only see one bus on Bus times?

Take your pick, driver or punter falling ill on the bus , random act of vandalism, Breakdown, RTC, bus could have been regulated to do a short journey if running late. 

The platinums receiving a refurbishment, will they be getting the same leather and cloth replacement for the seats ( the cloth being the new moquette) or will the seat just be all over cloth? (Like what happened to 47** high back seat E400s)

I would imagine so , why introduce another cost buying in fake leather , plus the first batch of ENVIRO 400mmc's are basically 10 years old , platinum doesn't mean anything now does it. 
People moan it's a sea of boring grey , you could say the same back in the day when you had blue and grey Metros everywhere. 

Awful things. Sweaty in the summer, cold in the winter, ask any of the drivers who have had to sit in them when cabs seats made of it

Yeap totally awful experience, worst cab seat ever 

Sackable offence, surely?

Does it auto activate an electronic handbrake, and the engine restart when you press the accelerator?

I must say, on a car it's something you get very used to and it comes as second nature to press the accelerator if it has activated at, say traffic lights just before green, in which case there's no delay. However, if all vehicles had it, imagine all those saved emissions if you're queuing in a traffic jam or at lights! I know some will say this is woke or some other such silly idea, but for the people who have to live breathe and work around the emissions it's not.

Have you ever noticed that on certain media it's always the people who want to drive through the areas and create the emissions that environmental features like EVs, ULEZ are designed to combat who moan loudest!!

Sackable offence what are you on about ?
The platinum's stop start varies from bus to bus
Some only stop/start when doors open my prefered option, others stop/start when stationary at random times,  some stop/start everytime the handbrake is applied this gets very annoying .
Stop/start has caused alot of reliability issues on 6900s at WB,  if an engineer can get the bus going again we are told leave the hazards on while making our way back to garage doing so cuts out the stop/start

Drivers - what do you think of stop start on the 16/66/68/19/69 plate E400 MMCs. Can it be annoying sometimes?

Deactivate it I say , just annoying , how much fuel are you saving when it restarts after 2 seconds 

6992 will be long term off the road, involved in substantial N/S front RTC