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758 listed as WB reserve looking at it this morning it's being stripped of parts  various glass panels missing  now and other smaller items , wiring exposed  etc 

Greetings, Looks like the Over lords are going shuffle some routes about in March PB52 to WB & WB3 to PN 3A to stay at WB
i wonder if PB52 will interwork with WB5 route after route alterations i presume,  msg i saw being done for business reasons etc

It appears where Stagecoach Oldbury ran its operations from during the commonwealth games is the new proposed site to replace WB garage, Total park , Birmingham rd oldbury, it's on rightmove some very good aerial shots , ideal new depot site imo.
It will solve our lack of restroom facilities here in oldbury to.

I noticed last week that Monday to Friday, there's 1 decker a day on the 89 (today there were 2, in the form of 4485 and 6807)

Is this to meet passenger demand?

it could be 87s being delayed that deckers being allocated to the 89 to take some load off as many folks that get off red cow/bluegates live in and around in the uplands area which the 89 covers 

I'm not quite sure I like what you're insinuating 

Rammed. Glad I quit late nites a few years back I just do my own rota late nite line every 6 weeks, I've noticed huge differences in patterns there no let up some times, no wonder drivers can't get there lates covered now.

None require previous experience, just as Mike says, to get on the regular rota you have to wait for a line to become available

or a mutual swap between 2 consenting colleagues

1835 excellent scania in all areas , lovely cruiser , couldn't careless about passenger comfort not my problem, from drivers point of a view spot on 

6814 , 421,000 miles on clock at time of driving , new steering wheel and cab seat, a slug on level rd, but flies up hill, overall decent bus other than flat level performance.

It wasn't in the best postion for a photo yesterday. Because of the light you cannot see them, but it also has a light grey strip below the top deck windows, and the windows on both decks have black window surrounds

Looks plenty presentable all good imo

BRUM  city centre this afternoon/evening total shit show, I finished  90 minutes late 

From what I've heard payment to NXWM from WMCA will depend on what's recorded on the init tablets, which I find hard to believe

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.