Acocks Green Garage

[pb2012]

probably a write off due to age of bus involved?

[Stu]

Birmingham Mail confirms the bus was out of service and heading back to AG garage, so no passengers were on board:
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/acocks-green-bus-bursts-flames-6264565

[Stu]

Seriously, I heard this this morning...

Got on the 37 in Acocks Green, then I heard the lady driver on the radio reporting she had a problem with the bus (a Scania OmniLink, didn't get the fleetnumber) as the "doors won't stay closed, they keep opening back up by themselves".

A voice came back, asking her to 'reboot it by turning it off and on again'  ;D (I thought this was only an IT-related in-joke, but she was asked to turn off the bus, leave it a couple of minutes, and then start it again, to see if that corrected the problem! To which she stated that she'd "already done that")


I haven't seen her driving the 37 before, so maybe she's a new driver - in fact I'm sure I saw her driving the 31 yesterday - so maybe she's not aware that this is a particular 'idiosyncrasy' with these Scanias.  ;)

We sat there for a couple of minutes, when the voice came back on the radio advising her that engineers had no spare vehicles, so she would have to continue, and she would be advised accordingly.


As it would have it, we continued on our merry way, and by the time I got off before Camp Hill, there had been no issue with the doors not closing properly.  8)

Lucky for me, I was only a couple of minutes late arriving at work, and after recounting this experience, we had a good chuckle at work about it!  :)

[Westy]

I've been on the odd Walsall Scania with a 'closing door' problem as well!

[Nathan4775]

Was the first bus to go into the NXWM Livery from AG? If so what bus was it ?

[John]

Was the first bus to go into the NXWM Livery from AG? If so what bus was it ?

It may have been 1527 at West Brom, in February 2008. It may have just beaten the Yardley Wood Enviro400s and 4737 at Perry Barr into service

[Tony]

Was the first bus to go into the NXWM Livery from AG? If so what bus was it ?

It may have been 1527 at West Brom, in February 2008. It may have just beaten the Yardley Wood Enviro400s and 4737 at Perry Barr into service

The first buses repainted red & white were Presidents, 4052 was in service in 12/07
3rd Photo down here http://wmbusphotos.com/NXWM/4001-4224/4052.html

[winston]

Was the first bus to go into the NXWM Livery from AG? If so what bus was it ?

It may have been 1527 at West Brom, in February 2008. It may have just beaten the Yardley Wood Enviro400s and 4737 at Perry Barr into service

John,

I think it was the Presidents @ BC that first appeared in NX livery, the earlier ones were in the wrong shade of red

4040
http://wmbusphotos.com/NXWM/4001-4224/4040.html

4073
http://wmbusphotos.com/NXWM/4001-4224/4073.html

4056 was another

[Liverpool Street]

Was the first bus to go into the NXWM Livery from AG? If so what bus was it ?

It may have been 1527 at West Brom, in February 2008. It may have just beaten the Yardley Wood Enviro400s and 4737 at Perry Barr into service

The first buses repainted red & white were Presidents, 4052 was in service in 12/07
3rd Photo down here http://wmbusphotos.com/NXWM/4001-4224/4052.html

Shame our livery STILL isn't finished!!

[Nathan4775]

Why did 4040 have NXWM logos then have them replaced with TWM logos ?

[Solo1]

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/video-birmingham-bus-fire-acocks-6289126 

[Rob H]

Was the first bus to go into the NXWM Livery from AG? If so what bus was it ?

It may have been 1527 at West Brom, in February 2008. It may have just beaten the Yardley Wood Enviro400s and 4737 at Perry Barr into service

John,

I think it was the Presidents @ BC that first appeared in NX livery, the earlier ones were in the wrong shade of red

4040
http://wmbusphotos.com/NXWM/4001-4224/4040.html

4073
http://wmbusphotos.com/NXWM/4001-4224/4073.html

4056 was another

4052 4067 4074 & 4110 aswell :)

[Tony]

4050 and 4075 are now parked back to back inside AG. 4050 is nowhere near as bad as 4075

[Liverpool Street]

4050 and 4075 are now parked back to back inside AG. 4050 is nowhere near as bad as 4075

Photo to come I'm sure? 4050 didn't get a chance to spread did it? 4075's fire spread upwards fairly quick

[Stuharris 6360]

4050 and 4075 are now parked back to back inside AG. 4050 is nowhere near as bad as 4075

Any chance it could be repaired