Diamond Bus - Unusual Workings

[4747]

20849 and 30439 on the 202!!!!

[winston]

20849 and 30439 on the 202!!!!

Shape of things to come it the 202 moves to KR depot

[John]

B7RLE/Wright Urban 2 on the 56 (never caught the plate). Has been on there all day

[nitromatt1]

20849 and 30439 on the 202!!!!

Shape of things to come it the 202 moves to KR depot

Unless the Royales went with them (I hope!)

[winston]

20849 and 30439 on the 202!!!!

Shape of things to come it the 202 moves to KR depot

Unless the Royales went with them (I hope!)

I can't see that happening as the Solo's were moved out of KR to standardize the fleet on Darts, the other option may be to move the VDL/Centro's in to KR (Not sure whether they are for sale or they are now keeping them???) as the running gear is similar to a Dart and they seat 42.

Although I agree with your post in Simon's threads about the Royale's being better suited to the longer distance KR routes, I can't see that happening as Tividale would loose full size deckers again.

This was posted on diamond FB page an hour ago:

202 - Unfortunately this service is disrupted at present due to operational difficulties. We apologise for any delays to your travel.

[iamwilljh92]

20849 and 30439 on the 202!!!!

Shape of things to come it the 202 moves to KR depot

Unless the Royales went with them (I hope!)

I can't see that happening as the Solo's were moved out of KR to standardize the fleet on Darts, the other option may be to move the VDL/Centro's in to KR (Not sure whether they are for sale or they are now keeping them???) as the running gear is similar to a Dart and they seat 42.

Although I agree with your post in Simon's threads about the Royale's being better suited to the longer distance KR routes, I can't see that happening as Tividale would loose full size deckers again.

This was posted on diamond FB page an hour ago:

202 - Unfortunately this service is disrupted at present due to operational difficulties. We apologise for any delays to your travel.

"I can't see that happening as Tividale would loose full size deckers again"

Don't take this the wrong way Winston but like that would be our [Kidderminster's] problem like Sam, Cedric and myself have said on many occasions the X3/294-95/303/10 and the 3 (on occasions) can be near to bursting sometimes especially if Diamond decide to use an MPD on those services I mentioned yes I firmly believe the Centro's would be very valuable to KR and if push really did come to shove the 10/11 MPDs that we have in Kidder currently could be transferred to either TD or LAC which ever one was the more needy of them

[winston]

20849 and 30439 on the 202!!!!

Shape of things to come it the 202 moves to KR depot

Unless the Royales went with them (I hope!)

I can't see that happening as the Solo's were moved out of KR to standardize the fleet on Darts, the other option may be to move the VDL/Centro's in to KR (Not sure whether they are for sale or they are now keeping them???) as the running gear is similar to a Dart and they seat 42.

Although I agree with your post in Simon's threads about the Royale's being better suited to the longer distance KR routes, I can't see that happening as Tividale would loose full size deckers again.

This was posted on diamond FB page an hour ago:

202 - Unfortunately this service is disrupted at present due to operational difficulties. We apologise for any delays to your travel.

"I can't see that happening as Tividale would loose full size deckers again"

Don't take this the wrong way Winston but like that would be our [Kidderminster's] problem like Sam, Cedric and myself have said on many occasions the X3/294-95/303/10 and the 3 (on occasions) can be near to bursting sometimes especially if Diamond decide to use an MPD on those services I mentioned yes I firmly believe the Centro's would be very valuable to KR and if push really did come to shove the 10/11 MPDs that we have in Kidder currently could be transferred to either TD or LAC which ever one was the more needy of them

I don't disagree that KR doesn't need more full length Darts or ideally full size deckers such as Volvo/Centro or Volvo/Wright etc for the longer distance services. Tividale have only just increased the number of full size single deckers it has since the ex Transdev Volvo's were acquired as they too had too many MPD's. It still seems to be a problem across Diamond at present. If any Volvo's were available for transfer, I would think Redditch would still be higher up the list than Kidderminster

[Tony]

B7RLE/Wright Urban 2 on the 56 (never caught the plate). Has been on there all day

It was one of the 13 plates, 30943
http://wmbusphotos.com/diamondpages/30943.html

[jc]

If anything surely the ex Midland Classic B7RLE's would be moved over with the 202, they are good buses for services like the 202, there are 3 of them (Non are branded Value) and they are pretty much identical to Redditch's 30861. Kidderminster drivers should already be trained on the Urbans and the 202 is a service that you need bigger and better spec'd buses for.

[the trainbasher]

If anything surely the ex Midland Classic B7RLE's would be moved over with the 202, they are good buses for services like the 202, there are 3 of them (Non are branded Value) and they are pretty much identical to Redditch's 30861. Kidderminster drivers should already be trained on the Urbans and the 202 is a service that you need bigger and better spec'd buses for.

Surely if the B7RLEs were kept, wouldn't it be a better case of extending it along the X3 route to Redditch and run it out of redditch?

[PM]

If anything surely the ex Midland Classic B7RLE's would be moved over with the 202, they are good buses for services like the 202, there are 3 of them (Non are branded Value) and they are pretty much identical to Redditch's 30861. Kidderminster drivers should already be trained on the Urbans and the 202 is a service that you need bigger and better spec'd buses for.

Surely if the B7RLEs were kept, wouldn't it be a better case of extending it along the X3 route to Redditch and run it out of redditch?

Further extending an already long route to run out of a depot with no spaee capacity...

[vinh1000]

Centro on the x30

[trident4370]

20808 spent the day on the 34, so should do some peak 50s shortly.

[the trainbasher]

30827 out in Stourbridge on the 142 (xx00 ex Stourbridge, xx30 ex Dudley if anyone is interested)

[Trident 4609]

30827 out in Stourbridge on the 142 (xx00 ex Stourbridge, xx30 ex Dudley if anyone is interested)

Dudley? Do you mean Halesowen? ;)