Buses you'd like NX to have

[Tony]

new routemasters are cool in london, it would be nice to have these in birmingham, but H&S want allow rear entry buses

Nothing of the sort

[Liverpool Street]

I'm rather annoyed because I would've liked some b8rle's rather soon but I can only hope now for some,
I think it would be annoying if we have to much ADL in the fleet.

Walsall garage are getting some B8Rs in a couple of weeks time! (not LE though)

Coaches?

And the joke was RLE stands for Really Low Entrance .... What does it actually stand for?

[Liverpool Street]

ADL body and Volvo chassis, for some 2001 simulated variation.

Brownie points for anybody who knows what I'm on about.

4225-4304  ;)

ADL body and Volvo chassis, for some 2001 simulated variation.

Brownie points for anybody who knows what I'm on about.

ALX400 bodied Volvo B7TL? ;)

Ahhh! You're not all as stupid as you look ;-) haha (that's a joke if y'all didn't know haha)

[Tony]

I'm rather annoyed because I would've liked some b8rle's rather soon but I can only hope now for some,
I think it would be annoying if we have to much ADL in the fleet.

Walsall garage are getting some B8Rs in a couple of weeks time! (not LE though)

Coaches?

And the joke was RLE stands for Really Low Entrance .... What does it actually stand for?

It means Rear Engine Low Entrance

Walsall are actually getting B9R in a couple of weeks time (loan from Whittles) but I believe the replacements will be B8R

[The Fox 4846]

Why are they getting coaches?

[the trainbasher]

Why are they getting coaches?

To cover the NX Coach work that Whittles currently do...

[The Fox 4846]

Does anyone know when the new buses are arriving?

[Stu]

Does anyone know when the new buses are arriving?

Next year. ;)

[The Fox 4846]

Sorry I meant what date or week

[Trident 4609]

Sorry I meant what date or week

They haven't even been built yet! Surely it won't be far off before ADL start production on the first of the batch?

[Ronnoc]

NX could've got Lancs, Mercedes 0530 type, Gemini 2's, Optare Olympus' instead of these rubbish Enviros.

[PM]

NX could've got Lancs, Mercedes 0530 type, Gemini 2's, Optare Olympus' instead of these rubbish Enviros.

Optare Olympus are no longer being built and haven't since the end of 2011/start of 2012. The old East Lancs factory in Blackburn that built them is no more!

[Ronnoc]

NX could've got Lancs, Mercedes 0530 type, Gemini 2's, Optare Olympus' instead of these rubbish Enviros.

Optare Olympus are no longer being built and haven't since the end of 2011/start of 2012. The old East Lancs factory in Blackburn that built them is no more!

Well the Optares should've been bought before it's cease.

[winston]

NX could've got Lancs, Mercedes 0530 type, Gemini 2's, Optare Olympus' instead of these rubbish Enviros.

Optare Olympus are no longer being built and haven't since the end of 2011/start of 2012. The old East Lancs factory in Blackburn that built them is no more!

Well the Optares should've been bought before it's cease.

You're calling Enviro's rubbish, instead you want a fleet of Optares Olympus.....  :o  Ask yourself how many of the new Optare Metrodecker have been ordered to date.......

[The Real 4778]

Another vote for the NB4L here.  I try to sample a couple every working day, I just love the retro ambience and attention to detail.  Yes, I know they are bespoke to London and therefore expensive.

It's a shame we couldn't have had our local authority specify a 'New Birmingham Standard' in terms of livery, detail colours and finishes when tendering services.  Okay, I recognise it would be all ADL, but with a nod to Birmingham's heritage, with a modern twist like the NB4Ls, such a colour scheme and details could have conveyed a really classy retro kudos for us to be proud of.  Instead of asymmetric sheep-dip colours.

Single deckers: new Merc saloons, like Arriva uses on the 116.