New Deliveries / New Livery & Branding Discussion

[winston]

Yes

Fair enough, wasn't sure if it was a typo.

[Stuharris 6360]

Sure this may have been asked before, in what case I apologisse in advance, but why is there a gap between 6148 and 6687?

was looking forward to there being another 6360?

[BK63 YWP]

Will 6711-18 transfer to Walsall?

[2206]

Will 6711-18 transfer to Walsall?

Or maybe a few will go to AG, replacing the Gemini that currently also appear on the X12 daily?

[Eric Shaw]

What will be the livery on the new buses for YW? I read they are Platinums, but route 50 is shared with Diamond and the bus stops have been changed to Transport for West Midlands ones.

[Steve3229vp]

What will be the livery on the new buses for YW? I read they are Platinums, but route 50 is shared with Diamond and the bus stops have been changed to Transport for West Midlands ones.

The routes jointly operated by NXWM and Diamond (31, 32 and 42, 43) both use the same resources. NXWM use a lot more buses on the 50 compared to Diamond so it will not become a Transport for West Midlands route.

[Stu]

What will be the livery on the new buses for YW? I read they are Platinums, but route 50 is shared with Diamond and the bus stops have been changed to Transport for West Midlands ones.

Diamond operate their own competing jouneys on the 50, it is not a 'shared' partnership as with the 42/43 and 31/32.

The bus stop flags were changed when the 50A was withdrawn, all future flags will be in the new TfWM design as and when they need to be replaced, the design is not reserved for partnership routes.

[winston]

What will be the livery on the new buses for YW? I read they are Platinums, but route 50 is shared with Diamond and the bus stops have been changed to Transport for West Midlands ones.

All 75 due for NXWM were all to be Platinum's, I assume the NXC won't now gain their own premium brand as per xplore Dundee Emerald's.

[DJ]

All 75 due for NXWM were all to be Platinum's, I assume the NXC won't now gain their own premium brand as per xplore Dundee Emerald's.

I don't see why they couldn't get 'Platinum' but have sky blue accents rather than red, or even just sky blue route branding similar to the X7/X8's purple.

[SK68MEV]

PN platinums will hopefully be for the 9 as there r 28 on order and currently the have 24 buses so mabye the generic platinum branded ones head over to AG to help wiv the X12 and the 6 that r due at BC hope they are for the X70

[2206]

PN platinums will hopefully be for the 9 as there r 28 on order and currently the have 24 buses so mabye the generic platinum branded ones head over to AG to help wiv the X12 and the 6 that r due at BC hope they are for the X70

Its already been confirmed where they are for above.

Shame that the Gemini's will be going from the 11A/11C, long time they been operating on their I recall. Will this see the withdrawal of the 42** volvos then?

14 years, 4635 - 4679 were new to the route in October 2004 @Trident 4194 . Though would 38 be enough to completely replace them on the 11? It was said on here that the PVR was in the low 40's.
Up until they started to debrand them (it appears to be 4667, 4672 and the 45XX retaining the branding at present), there were 35 Gemini and they were still accompanied by some B7TL ALX400 on a daily basis. So though they may replace the Gemini it may be that some may still get on there?

[Trident 4194]

Shame that the Gemini's will be going from the 11A/11C, long time they been operating on their I recall. Will this see the withdrawal of the 42** volvos then?

[winston]

Shame that the Gemini's will be going from the 11A/11C, long time they been operating on their I recall. Will this see the withdrawal of the 42** volvos then?

The Y-reg Tridents should be totally removed plus a large proportion of the non compliant 42-- Volvo/ALX400's

[Stu]

Shame that the Gemini's will be going from the 11A/11C, long time they been operating on their I recall. Will this see the withdrawal of the 42** volvos then?

The Geminis were originally 'new' for the 11A/C when it was upgraded back in 2004. The irony is that the route has been 'upgraded' with older vehicles ever since.

I would expect the transfer of E400MMCs to see older Volvo B7TLs withdrawn, but it remains to be seen where any left over Geminis end up.

I did some calculations a while back and I estimated the 11A/C needs about 43-45 buses.

From a personal point of view, I would have probably preferred these to stay at YW and upgrade the 2 and 3. But then I can't always have my own way.  ;)

[DJ]

The Geminis were originally 'new' for the 11A/C when it was upgraded back in 2004. The irony is that the route has been 'upgraded' with older vehicles ever since.

I would expect the transfer of E400MMCs to see older Volvo B7TLs withdrawn, but it remains to be seen where any left over Geminis end up.

I did some calculations a while back and I estimated the 11A/C needs about 43-45 buses.

From a personal point of view, I would have probably preferred these to stay at YW and upgrade the 2 and 3. But then I can't always have my own way.  ;)

I was told that WB would be getting some of the left over Geminis, but who knows how true that is.