Boxing Day 2013

[the trainbasher]

Its a shame we carnt see more of TGB on Sunday routes I.e 19, after seeing them today I must say they were outstanding in keeping them on time considering it was there first time running on the routes.

Apart from the 213, 214 which departed at times all over the place. One trip I clocked the 214 as 23 early from a intermeditate timing point (Cradley) and nothing after 1445...

[598]

Does anyone have a full rundown of what the green bus was operating today??

[Sh4318]

The 6 & 37 seemed to be fully dd today. The 6 allocated Tridents and Enviros and the 37 allocated Geminis. Can't say I'm too surprised about that, 2 most frequent services to two main shopping hubs (Birmingham & Solihull), deckers were justified by loadings too

[Nathan4775]

Did the 72E to Solihull Twn Ctr ran using Gemini's, or B7/Scania 

[Rob H]

Did the 72E to Solihull Twn Ctr ran using Gemini's, or B7/Scania

It's usually B7's & Scania's that operate the 72E when its a Sunday Service :)

[Nathan4775]

Aw, I thought maybe they'd throw a few gemini's on there ;)

[Sh4318]

Aw, I thought maybe they'd throw a few gemini's on there ;)

Could've even used Presidents 8)

[Westy]

Did Green Bus operate Walsall evening 70s today?

[Gareth]

Yesterday, National Express West Midlands announced via their facebook page that, Boxing Day was the busiest day of 2013. They revealed that on that day 250,000 passengers were carried.
I find that figure and statement most odd. What happened to the days of a million passengers a day? Even with fleet and service reductions looking 750,000 in 15 years is shocking! Has someone got the numbers mixed up? I just find it very hard to believe that a day with a Sunday service, with many routes stopping around 6-8pm that is was the busiest day of the year.

Your thoughts please :-)

[Stuharris 6360]

How can they posdsibly say that Boxing Day was the busiest day of 2013, for a start on a Monday to Friday, many many more buses run than ran on Boxing day and these buses are very full and standing.

Think someone has got confused there.

Did they mean to say it was the busiest Boxing day bus service ever?

[Sh4318]

Well the 87s were rammed, even in the evenings, so it was very busy on Boxing Day, busiest day of the year? That I don't know

[Stu]

250,000 doesn't seem a lot to me either.

http://nxbus.co.uk/west-midlands/about-us/national-express-buses

National Express West Midlands is the largest bus operator in the respective area and one of the largest in the UK carrying over 1 million passengers every day.

[Gareth]

Oh, so they do still mention a million a day then? How odd.

[karl724223]

Think it should have said busiest Boxing Day

[Stu]

Think it should have said busiest Boxing Day

"The busiest Boxing Day in 2013" - well, naturally yes, as there is only one Boxing Day a year, unless I missed a memo?  ;)