Birmingham Central Garage

[Tony]

4913 will be out this afternoon with a new advert applied offside & rear. The nearside will be changed tomorrow

[MasterPlan]

There appears to be little point of the 16:50 X21 from City being on the timetable. From my experience it's very hit and miss as to whether it actually shows up.
From what I've seen on tracking it only does two trips. 15:43 X22 into City and then the 16:50 X21 outbound. But as I say its quite regularly missing.

[BlackCountryBusSpotter]

4943 saw not in service going through Walsall Town Centre on it's way for paint or an MOT?

[Tony]

4943 saw not in service going through Walsall Town Centre on it's way for paint or an MOT?

Refurbishment 

[BlackCountryBusSpotter]

Refurbishment

Ah OK does this include a repaint or just an Internal refurb

[cris 99]

It's down for a repaint aswell 

[cardew]

I'm surprised considering BC still have half a dozen Coventry blue ones to be done. As always I'm sure there are reasons.

[Tony]

I'm surprised considering BC still have half a dozen Coventry blue ones to be done. As always I'm sure there are reasons.

The blue ones are still reasonable although the wrong colour and only have 4 year old trim in. 4943 was in awful condition with worn trim. The choice to take last night was between 4888 & 4943 and 4943 was far more in need

[cardew]

The blue ones are still reasonable although the wrong colour and only have 4 year old trim in. 4943 was in awful condition with worn trim. The choice to take last night was between 4888 & 4943 and 4943 was far more in need

Thanks for the explanation

[Jack]

I'm surprised considering BC still have half a dozen Coventry blue ones to be done. As always I'm sure there are reasons.

The blue ones look a lot more smarter than the red/white examples. Take a look at 4900/4925 and compare that to 4890 etc.

[Mike K]

6878, which I caught home from town on the 23 this evening, did its final outbound journey of the day on the wrong route. It's been on the 23 all day, but on its last trip should have been the 17.11 24 journey from city. However it mistakenly ran as a 23 again (ticket machine was showing Quinton Rd West as the next timing point when I got off).

[mesub]

6878, which I caught home from town on the 23 this evening, did its final outbound journey of the day on the wrong route. It's been on the 23 all day, but on its last trip should have been the 17.11 24 journey from city. However it mistakenly ran as a 23 again (ticket machine was showing Quinton Rd West as the next timing point when I got off).

Yikes. Did you let the driver know?

[Mike K]

Yikes. Did you let the driver know?

No. I live on the 23 route!

[Ingleboro261F]

I have a question about the SL14 Enviro 400s, Do they have a ZF or a voith gearbox?

[ZF B7]

I have a question about the SL14 Enviro 400s, Do they have a ZF or a voith gearbox?

ZF