Birmingham Central Garage

[Stu]

7529 worked the 2315 to Coventry and presumably the non tracking return journey at 0020 arriving to Birmingham at 0122 - some sort of flaw causing some post midnight trips to not track on three nights of the week, something to do with the timetable being 'different' from the day before I guess?.

The timetable changed as of midnight this morning.

There's no longer a 0020 departure from Coventry. CV began operations with the new 0004 departure.

Presumably 7529 would have just run dead back to garage after finishing in Coventry Pool Meadow.

[JPC]

The timetable changed as of midnight this morning.

There's no longer a 0020 departure from Coventry. CV began operations with the new 0004 departure.

Presumably 7529 would have just run dead back to garage after finishing in Coventry Pool Meadow.

Fair enough, I did hint previously that one or the other didn't need to run this morning, I don't have proof if BC ran the 0020 this morning but the journey was always missing from tracking over the past few months on three nights of the week, namely late night Fri, Sat and Sun, and as they were technically Sat, Sun and Mon morning the system was unable to assign the tracking to a trip on those days?.
I will look out to see if similar missing tracking occurs with the 0015 to Coventry this week.

[Stu]

Fair enough, I did hint previously that one or the other didn't need to run this morning, I don't have proof if BC ran the 0020 this morning but the journey was always missing from tracking over the past few months on three nights of the week, namely late night Fri, Sat and Sun, and as they were technically Sat, Sun and Mon morning the system was unable to assign the tracking to a trip on those days?.
I will look out to see if similar missing tracking occurs with the 0015 to Coventry this week.

There is probably some kind of 'glitch' in the data somewhere, where a service schedule rolls over into the following day.
Or perhaps the driver is logging onto the wrong journey somehow.

CV's first trip on the X1 shows as trip 84 and was either 12 hours early or late, but did appear to depart from Pool Meadow at the new time of 00:04:
https://bustimes.org/services/x1-birmingham-coventry-via-airport/vehicles#journeys/493139133

[spacecowboy150]

Whats up with 4917? not seen service since last year (I checked vehicles away from home and not tracking)

[Tony]

Whats up with 4917? not seen service since last year (I checked vehicles away from home and not tracking)

It's out almost every day

[MasterPlan]

I notice the new X22 destination displays for Bartley Green have via points on the front display but only Bartley Green in bigger font on the rear one. Is this a change that's going to happen across the board or an error?

[mesub]

I notice the new X22 destination displays for Bartley Green have via points on the front display but only Bartley Green in bigger font on the rear one. Is this a change that's going to happen across the board or an error?

It's actually always been like that (at least since NX started to do destinations in house). I have seen it on one or two rare occasions, before the route changes occured. It would definitely be useful to have.

There's also no stop announcements (and the stop announcements towards Birmingham are outdated).

[MasterPlan]

It's actually always been like that (at least since NX started to do destinations in house). I have seen it on one or two rare occasions, before the route changes occured. It would definitely be useful to have.

There's also no stop announcements (and the stop announcements towards Birmingham are outdated).

No it was like that previously on short working journeys.

But it would be the same on both sides.

The NSA always disappear when a destination display is changed as I think they are linked to it.

Also to be fair they've had erroneous NSA on a lot of buses for the Commonwealth Games for ages anyway.

[spacecowboy150]

It's out almost every day

Sorry I meant 4916

[dw1308]

Sorry I meant 4916

Probably still parked up in the garage awaiting some panels, I presume this is the case because it was there when I left for my weeks holiday

[Tony]

Probably still parked up in the garage awaiting some panels, I presume this is the case because it was there when I left for my weeks holiday

Needs a bit more than panels, but yes.

[spacecowboy150]

What revs are the BX13s limited to before changing gear?

[dw1308]

What revs are the BX13s limited to before changing gear?

Some change about 1900RPM and some change at about 1700RPM I wouldn't say they are "limited" to any RPM just what the gearbox software decides is necessary for the load being put through it

[Wba_lad]

Does anyone know what the red and white gemeni is parked up in BC?

[BBS]

Does anyone know what the red and white gemeni is parked up in BC?

It's 4658 Tony said it's parked at BC because of some engine swap