Platinum

[BK63 YWP]

Really never thought of that genius 😂

Well if the first 6 have already been out and ex Suttons going to WB work that out genius...😂

[wbdriver]

had my first experience of travelling on a platinum this morning on the 126 6785 i think. very impressed with them. the only thing i didn't like was the announcements were a bit loud.

[Trident 4194]

had my first experience of travelling on a platinum this morning on the 126 6785 i think. very impressed with them. the only thing i didn't like was the announcements were a bit loud.

Also had my first experience on 6776 I think and the announcements were a bit loud I also thought. Any ideas who's voice it is? Very good overall, can't tell the voith from the zf gearbox, and I think there is a way of overriding stop start

[BusFan94]

Also had my first experience on 6776 I think and the announcements were a bit loud I also thought. Any ideas who's voice it is? Very good overall, can't tell the voith from the zf gearbox, and I think there is a way of overriding stop start

As far as I'm aware it is the driver speaking for example if you heard a man speaking and a man was driving it would be the driver. If it was a women and a women was driving the same. Whereas If a man was driving and a women spoke it is computed generated.
Also what was the point in Platinumising  the 529 if it goes Wolverhampton to Walsall I think it would make more sense to Platinumise  the 79 it goes further than the 529 from Wolvo to West Brom

[Gareth]

It's not the driver and it's not computer generated speech as such. They are pre recorded by real people. For example Phil Upton on the 22 and 23 in Birmingham.

Length of route also has nothing to do with which routes should and shouldn't be Platinum.

[The Real 4778]

As far as I'm aware it is the driver speaking for example if you heard a man speaking and a man was driving it would be the driver. If it was a women and a women was driving the same. Whereas If a man was driving and a women spoke it is computed generated.

Why does a men never drive? 

I guess it's all those women drivers!

[John]

6805 entered service today. Done the 757 and a 904/5 this afternoon

[Dom]

As far as I'm aware it is the driver speaking

Oh jesus christ, so every driver has the same voice?

[Trident 4194]

Oh jesus christ, so every driver has the same voice?

The one on BC hybrids are much better than this guy.

[BU07 LGO]

Oh jesus christ, so every driver has the same voice?

Haha, I wouldn't even know half the stops. Next stop is "just after the traffic lights"

The next stop is "by the motorway bridge " lol

[Ashley 60171]

Just moaning for the sake of moaning and nit picking as per.

After five years (next month) of next stop annoucements, various voices and services. I still don't see the issue, can sometimes feel weird without them, especially on the 1.

[Stu]

As far as I'm aware it is the driver speaking for example if you heard a man speaking and a man was driving it would be the driver. If it was a women and a women was driving the same. Whereas If a man was driving and a women spoke it is computed generated.
Also what was the point in Platinumising  the 529 if it goes Wolverhampton to Walsall I think it would make more sense to Platinumise  the 79 it goes further than the 529 from Wolvo to West Brom

You've obviously never travelled on any bus with talking announcements.

As for 'Platinumising', its nothing to do with the length of the route, but its role within the network as a whole. The Platinum routes are those operating along key corridors connecting key areas, Wolverhampton to Walsall, Wolverhampton to Birmingham, Birmingham to Walsall, Birmingham to Coventry etc.

[GeminiFan1991]

If length was the main factor for making a route into Platinum, AG would be due a sizeable order to replace roughly a 1/3 of the fleet  ;)

I find it theirs become quite a bit of nit picking in regards to these Platinum buses, their a clear upgrade over the E400s they've succeeded to no cost to the end passenger. If you don't like the announcements, might I suggest head/earphones. I use them and it makes the journey all the more pleasant not to mention these announcements help announce key stops along the journey.

[Dom]

6773 has a different stop start to the others, it shuts down when the handbrake is applied in general, a driver friend of mine demonstrated this to me yesterday.

[Other Walsall Tony]

6794 on the 529 today.