Diamond West Midlands - Tividale

[midlandred2003]

Has 20055 ever entered service or not ?or is it a xmas tree at Tividale?

[winston]

Has 20055 ever entered service or not ?or is it a xmas tree at Tividale?

Nope. Still in Regal Busways base colours.

[midlandred2003]

OK thanks

[Trident 4194]

002 seems to always have quite a few streetlites not on the route

[2206]

Service Changes from October 2019.
https://www.diamondbuses.com/news/dia-october-19-changes/
Who will be operating the 53? Have NXWM got it? Or is the service being scrapped completely, as it always seem to mostly be empty when I see at various locations.

[BK63 YWP]

Service Changes from October 2019.
https://www.diamondbuses.com/news/dia-october-19-changes/
Who will be operating the 53? Have NXWM got it? Or is the service being scrapped completely, as it always seem to mostly be empty when I see at various locations.

Has NX got back the 5 and going to run it Sunday's perhaps between Dudley and Stourbridge keeping the 30 minute frequency  between Stourbridge and Kingswinford with the 17 gone

[midlandred2003]

So with the routes they are losing that must be about another 12 buses less at tividale, they seem to be losing quite a few this year.

[metrocity]

Service Changes from October 2019.
https://www.diamondbuses.com/news/dia-october-19-changes/
Who will be operating the 53? Have NXWM got it? Or is the service being scrapped completely, as it always seem to mostly be empty when I see at various locations.

Evergreen Coaches is the rumour and it will be going to Birmingham City Centre rather than Erdington from October

[winston]

So with the routes they are losing that must be about another 12 buses less at tividale, they seem to be losing quite a few this year.

NX seem keen to expand in the WM and their commercial department are getting quite creative at linking tenders in to existing commercial journeys.

Rotala's Manchester ops are now already slightly bigger than the combined Diamond WM ops (Tividale/Tamworth/Kidderminster & Redditch), before any further Pvr losses due to October TfWM tender round.

[Busboy105]

Evergreen Coaches is the rumour and it will be going to Birmingham City Centre rather than Erdington from October

Is that a good idea? I mean the 53 mostly carries little to no passengers as it is and there are more frequent services that you can use instead of the 53 for example the 66 is every 20 minutes and runs with the 53 between Erdington and Nechells. The 94 stops near the 53 Smiths Wood terminus while the 14 and 55 serve Glebe Farm and Shard End respectively.

[DJ]

Evergreen Coaches is the rumour and it will be going to Birmingham City Centre rather than Erdington from October

Isn't that one of the Thandi operations?

[midlandred2003]

Yes

[Trident 4194]

21211 on 4H. Must have replaced 30969, or the driver wanted a nice mellor to drive on his last duty of the day with a bit of music

[winston]

Courtesy of Rotala - another 9 vehicles were damaged in last nights fire. All look to be already withdrawn in storage.

21015 KU52RXS
21017 KV03ZFM
30121 B15WTS
30211 YD02PZL
30933 VX54MSU
40540 V540ESC
40541 V541ESC
40542 V542ESC
40543 V543ESC

[Trident 4194]

Mellor on 002. It seems that whenever a bus needs replacing they always have one of these spare?