West Bromwich Garage

[CL]

@MasterPlan 74s appear to be tracking now.

On a separate note, what was 4738 doing in Jewellery Quarter this afternoon/evening? Was parked up on the kerb for a bit before driving down a few yards to the Red Lion on Warstone Lane. Had Private Hire on the displays. Anymore intel on this, or just an exclusive pub crawl? lol

Caught a photo of 4780 passing it.

[John]

@MasterPlan 74s appear to be tracking now.

On a separate note, what was 4738 doing in Jewellery Quarter this afternoon/evening? Was parked up on the kerb for a bit before driving down a few yards to the Red Lion on Warstone Lane. Had Private Hire on the displays. Anymore intel on this, or just an exclusive pub crawl? lol

Caught a photo of 4780 passing it.

Might be the same one I saw at Aston Cross earlier this afternoon heading into City

[Jack6101]

@MasterPlan 74s appear to be tracking now.

On a separate note, what was 4738 doing in Jewellery Quarter this afternoon/evening? Was parked up on the kerb for a bit before driving down a few yards to the Red Lion on Warstone Lane. Had Private Hire on the displays. Anymore intel on this, or just an exclusive pub crawl? lol

Caught a photo of 4780 passing it.

theyve been tracking for nearly a week now

[4679]

@MasterPlan 74s appear to be tracking now.

On a separate note, what was 4738 doing in Jewellery Quarter this afternoon/evening? Was parked up on the kerb for a bit before driving down a few yards to the Red Lion on Warstone Lane. Had Private Hire on the displays. Anymore intel on this, or just an exclusive pub crawl? lol

Was taking groups from the Copthorne Hotel to various places around Birmingham.

[CL]

theyve been tracking for nearly a week now

Didn't take much notice of it until this afternoon, when three were expected to come at the same time! (4 mins, 5 miins, 5 mins) ! :P Aha

Was taking groups from the Copthorne Hotel to various places around Birmingham.

Cheers @WB Driver

[Trident 4609]

4929 has had yellow route branding applied for the 5 (West Bromwich to Sutton Coldfield). There is a photo somewhere on Facebook.

[Steve3229vp]

4929 has had yellow route branding applied for the 5 (West Bromwich to Sutton Coldfield). There is a photo somewhere on Facebook.

Oh no, why put branding on red and white buses !

[Jack]

4929 has had yellow route branding applied for the 5 (West Bromwich to Sutton Coldfield). There is a photo somewhere on Facebook.

Yep, same style as the 80. Looks good. I presume 4927-4937 will be branded? Nice to see that they rebranded it in yellow.

Oh no, why put branding on red and white buses !

What's wrong with branding red and white buses? Looks smart, main thing it's not green or blue!

[Steve3229vp]

Yep, same style as the 80. Looks good. I presume 4927-4937 will be branded? Nice to see that they rebranded it in yellow.
What's wrong with branding red and white buses? Looks smart, main thing it's not green or blue!

I wish they would just brand Crimson buses. Tourist's coming to the West Midlands probably think there are to different bus companies !

[Westy]

I don't see the point of branding the red & whites, especially as the vehicles concerned will more than likely get a crimson repaint in the next few years, and why put new style branding on the red & whites?

[Tony]

Tourist's coming to the West Midlands probably think there are to different bus companies !

Amazing isn't it

NXWM have 3 liveries in use and people "probably think there are to different bus companies"

Nottingham has multiple liveries on both main operators and it is genuinely difficult to tell which is Trent and which is Nottingham yet both get praised as top operators.

[Gareth]

Tourist's coming to the West Midlands probably think there are to different bus companies !

I the line of work that do, I deal with 90% of people who are not local to the Midlands. Both national and international guests. Never, have I been asked about any local buses. Trains, yes. Planes, yes. Local taxi firms, walking, cycle routes. Never buses.

[2206]

I wish they would just brand Crimson buses. Tourist's coming to the West Midlands probably think there are to different bus companies !

Not hard to tell, all buses in the NXWM fleet say National Express West Midlands.
The only time people are going to care who operates the bus is if they've bought a pass/ticket that excludes certain operators, eg. on the 11 someone buys a NX pass/day ticket that excludes Social Travel/DTS.

[karl724223]

Amazing isn't it NXWM have 3 liveries in use and people "probably think there are to different bus companies"
Nottingham has multiple liveries on both main operators and it is genuinely difficult to tell which is Trent and which is Nottingham yet both get praised as top operators.

I DID GET ASKED IF THE RED X10 GOES THE SAME WAY AS THE GREY X10 YESTERDAY

[don]

I don't see the point of branding the red & whites, especially as the vehicles concerned will more than likely get a crimson repaint in the next few years, and why put new style branding on the red & whites?

If NXWM only repaint 50 double deckers a year, then these would be done in the next two years if they go in date order - thus plenty of life for the branding - which will also cover up faded red nicely as well 😏 👍