Diamond Bus - Discussion

[Nathan4775]

The Dart I got, was full, but I imagine the centro was empty or empty-ish as the dart didn't leave till 16:56 so would have picked up the 16:45 + possibly a few 17:00 passengers.

[PM]

Was it an MPD or full length dart as I know MPDs are often on there?

[Nathan4775]

Must have been Full length, but didn't seem that long to me. Diamond actually do well on the 56 at peak times.

[Sayeed]

Saw ex First ADT2/President (V862 HBY) in Longbridge with no Diamond logo. Is this the one meant to be in Preston?

[Nathan4775]

Noticed Diamond were supporting the poppies too.

Are Diamond short of drivers at Long Acre ?, as all the buses I've seen so far.  Have got massive blue circles on the rear advertising to drive this bus etc?

Have you got a picture of this at all? And as I have previously said, it seems long acre have a high turnover of drivers...a lot higher than tividale

Managed to snap it when I got off  :)

[PM]

Noticed Diamond were supporting the poppies too.

Are Diamond short of drivers at Long Acre ?, as all the buses I've seen so far.  Have got massive blue circles on the rear advertising to drive this bus etc?

Have you got a picture of this at all? And as I have previously said, it seems long acre have a high turnover of drivers...a lot higher than tividale

Managed to snap it when I got off  :)

Thanks Nathan! :)

[Nathan4775]

Its now also on a few tividale buses too  :)

[Nathan4775]

Tony's got on the main 20032 being sent to Redditch but snapped it today on the 16;
http://www.flickr.com/photos/90949252@N04/10890275894/

is back at Long Acre now or ?

[PM]

Tony's got on the main 20032 being sent to Redditch but snapped it today on the 16;
http://www.flickr.com/photos/90949252@N04/10890275894/

is back at Long Acre now or ?

I doubt it ever moved personally...

[Liverpool Street]

I don't know how you keep on top of fleet movements for Rotala, its all just Darts and Solos.

Any easy way of knowing fleet location or is it just general knowledge?

[Nathan4775]

I don't know how you keep on top of fleet movements for Rotala, its all just Darts and Solos.

Any easy way of knowing fleet location or is it just general knowledge?

I think its just luck  ;) never aim to take photos of Diamond buses just take them when an were possible  :P

[PM]

I don't know how you keep on top of fleet movements for Rotala, its all just Darts and Solos.

Any easy way of knowing fleet location or is it just general knowledge?

As someone mostly interested in rotala theres no real way of knowing. In the same week you can have buses on loan to tividale and then solos over at long acre. Also, 30929 is meant to be at tividale but is at long acre. Its just general knowledge and guesswork really-tracking their fleet is definitely a lot lot more interesting than NXWM's

[PM]

I don't know how you keep on top of fleet movements for Rotala, its all just Darts and Solos.

Any easy way of knowing fleet location or is it just general knowledge?

As Diamond has a large fleet scattered among many routes, I take a photo of any Diamond bus were possible an compare notes when I get home  :)

That's the best plan really but it means photography is reall difficult as with the possible exceptions of the 002 centros, any bus could be on any route. I spent a large chunk of the summer photographing diamond buses and travelling all over the network-which is well worth doing especially with the ex first routes and there are still buses I haven't managed to track down

[Liverpool Street]

I don't know how you keep on top of fleet movements for Rotala, its all just Darts and Solos.

Any easy way of knowing fleet location or is it just general knowledge?

As someone mostly interested in rotala theres no real way of knowing. In the same week you can have buses on loan to tividale and then solos over at long acre. Also, 30929 is meant to be at tividale but is at long acre. Its just general knowledge and guesswork really-tracking their fleet is definitely a lot lot more interesting than NXWM's

Gah, I was dreading you'd say that.

Another thing I'm lost with is the fleet numbers. What's the idea of 1000's number gap, is it transfers from other areas of the country; or fleet management incompetence?

[PM]

I don't know how you keep on top of fleet movements for Rotala, its all just Darts and Solos.

Any easy way of knowing fleet location or is it just general knowledge?

As someone mostly interested in rotala theres no real way of knowing. In the same week you can have buses on loan to tividale and then solos over at long acre. Also, 30929 is meant to be at tividale but is at long acre. Its just general knowledge and guesswork really-tracking their fleet is definitely a lot lot more interesting than NXWM's

Gah, I was dreading you'd say that.

Another thing I'm lost with is the fleet numbers. What's the idea of 1000's number gap, is it transfers from other areas of the country; or fleet management incompetence?

Haha sorry  ;)

Fleetnumbers are a complete and utter mess it must be said. MPDs/primos/solos/e200s are all completely muddled up, there are dart slfs in the 20 series and solos in the 30 series which is illogical. There are massive gaps for no apparent reason and types have different fleetnumbers. Similarly, there are DDA compliant buses with a 21- series which doesn't make sense. I do hope rotala try to sort out some of the fleetnumbering problems as it must make it so hard to actually know what a type is simply by looking at the number.