Diamond Bus - Discussion

[MW]

Don't diamond drivers carry their duty cards with them, whereas NX stay in bus? How do NX drivers know if that the case what time they have to be driving?

Every duty has a duty number. There's a timetable in garage. Find your name on it, and find out what duty number you have on what day.

Then, there's another board with duties on it. Find your duty on this board. Tells you what you're doing.

A duty may look like this:
11C/01 GAR0430-0900FHR
11C/12 FHR0930-1200FHR

This tells you that on this day, you begin at Garage at 04:30 and you end at Fox Hollies Road relief point at 09:00. Then you begin again at Fox Hollies Road at 0930 till 1200.

That's all the information you have. To find out individual trips, you can go and find a copy of the running board to find out the specific times.

You'd write the duty information either on your phone or in your diary, or you can take a picture of it. That's how you know where to go.

[the trainbasher]

30823 on the 226 along with two solos and a dart...

[Trident 4194]

30823 on the 226 along with two solos and a dart...

Isn't that usual?

[the trainbasher]

Isn't that usual?

30823 is a ex Royale

[Trident 4194]

30823 is a ex Royale

I see a few full size deckers on 226 nowadays

[winston]

I see a few full size deckers on 226 nowadays

30488 & 30860 are on there today, Royale's do also appear from time to time, there were one in the week aswell

[Trident 4194]

Do you think diamond actually specify what routes to put the royales on?

It's a shame that diamond regarding marketing has gone downhill really... 002 ones seem to be mismatch with some having old branding, some new branding and some no branding at all.

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[BN]

Do you think diamond actually specify what routes to put the royales on?

It's a shame that diamond regarding marketing has gone downhill really... 002 ones seem to be mismatch with some having old branding, some new branding and some no branding at all.

Super 16
Nifty 50
Stourbridge hopper-142

Ever since Jonny 5 left.

[Trident 4194]

Ever since Jonny 5 left.

Shame that the mcv were so unreliable. The branding did suit them rather well? What was Jonny 5 job in diamond?

[BN]

Shame that the mcv were so unreliable. The branding did suit them rather well? What was Jonny 5 job in diamond?

Jon Everill was the marketing manager, very clever and inspirational person.

[Trident 4194]

Jon Everill was the marketing manager, very clever and inspirational person.

Thanks for that info, must admit he did a excellent job, with the bright colour schemes

[BK63 YWP]

Will the 002 ever be re-numbered ?

[Will]

Will the 002 ever be re-numbered ?

is that a serious question?!....Why would it need to be ::) dear or dear and I thought @Trident 4194  was simple

[BK63 YWP]

is that a serious question?!....Why would it need to be ::) dear or dear and I thought @Trident 4194  was simple

Reason for the question @Will is that Merry Hill Bus Station stand calls the 002 the 2...

[Stu]

is that a serious question?!....Why would it need to be ::) dear or dear and I thought @Trident 4194  was simple

The 002 and 004 do not fit in with the current service number structure being favoured at present, so yes, I think it is a valid question.

If the Dudley review ever goes ahead, I think you'll find these will be the first two services that get renumbered.