Training Bus Sightings

[Squiz1971]

Seen 9501 on Bromford Drive heading towards and going up Chipperfield Road about 9:43 today

[GeminiFan1991]

Just clocked 1350 in Cotteridge

[Tony]

Miller Street now working on 1421 to be the next training vehicle

[don]

Miller Street now working on 1421 to be the next training vehicle

Interesting - is there any possibility/likelihood of new double deck trainers at some point?

[Tony]

Interesting - is there any possibility/likelihood of new double deck trainers at some point?

Yes, hopefully be three next year

[don]

Yes, hopefully be three next year

Thanks Tony - Excellent - will be curious to see what they are!

[winston]

Miller Street now working on 1421 to be the next training vehicle

Did 1462's coversion to a trainer ever get completed? It got repainted in training livery but has been parked up in adjacent yard @ Miller St ever since

[Tony]

Did 1462's coversion to a trainer ever get completed? It got repainted in training livery but has been parked up in adjacent yard @ Miller St ever since

It was originally converted as an engineering classroom, not a driver trainer. It is not used as such any more, and is likely to follow 1421 into the driver training fleet

[GeminiFan1991]

I just clocked a training vehicle in West Heath, but I couldn't ID it as it didn't have a driver side fleet number

[Dylanbusboy45]

1377 in Kings Heath at 1402 today

[BusFan94]

Just got home while I was on the 302 to Lower Farm I saw a Volvo B10LE trainer by St Paul's Bus Station. On the back to Walsall I saw another Volvo B10LE trainer and a Metrobus. I couldn't ID any of them because there was a 301 in the way and also I was sitting on the left hand side to the Metrobus.

[P419 EJW]

Just got home while I was on the 302 to Lower Farm I saw a Volvo B10LE trainer by St Paul's Bus Station. On the back to Walsall I saw another Volvo B10LE trainer and a Metrobus. I couldn't ID any of them because there was a 301 in the way and also I was sitting on the left hand side to the Metrobus.

The training fleet doesn't have Volvo B10LEs. They have B10Bs and B10Ls. I saw 1408, a Volvo B10L, in Walsall at 10:58.

[Squiz1971]

Just got home while I was on the 302 to Lower Farm I saw a Volvo B10LE trainer by St Paul's Bus Station. On the back to Walsall I saw another Volvo B10LE trainer and a Metrobus. I couldn't ID any of them because there was a 301 in the way and also I was sitting on the left hand side to the Metrobus.

The metrobus is more than likely going to be 9959 @BusFan94

[BusFan94]

The training fleet doesn't have Volvo B10LEs. They have B10Bs and B10Ls. I saw 1408, a Volvo B10L, in Walsall at 10:58.

Yeah  I saw it around the same time. Oh and thanks for  the types.

[GeminiFan1991]

I know it's not  a training vehicle by allocation but their was a B7TL ALX400 with a trainee and many others present in Castle Bromwich just after 12 by the spitfire Island.