West Bromwich Garage

[Ash]

The 404 went to Walsall because after the Wolverhampton and West Walsall review in 2011, WB garage took on more work, mainly the new 75 service.

They needed to lose work out due to this ongoing capacity issue so the 404 (PVR then 20) went to WA and the 405 (PVR 5?) came in.

At that time the PVR for the 404 mon-fri was 19 and the PVR for the 405 was 6 but also the 406 got returned to WB I think the PVR was 3 or may be 4 cant remember. Yeah but Walsall lost the 405/406/529 and essentially got replaced with the 404 of which Walsall had previously operated 6 running boards on using buses 1848-1853.

[Westy]

529 was never the same for me, after it got transferred to Wolves.

Only saving grace was that you occasionally saw other Wolves specific vehicles types(Spectras, B7 singles, Mercedes & once a Solo!) on there!

Made a change from Trident, Trident, Trident etc from Walsall.

Don't think you ever got an Enviro or Gem on there, for variety.

[Tony]

529 was never the same for me, after it got transferred to Wolves.

Only saving grace was that you occasionally saw other Wolves specific vehicles types(Spectras, B7 singles, Mercedes & once a Solo!) on there!

Made a change from Trident, Trident, Trident etc from Walsall.

Don't think you ever got an Enviro or Gem on there, for variety.

There was normally one or two Gemins allocated to be on there, and were most days. Wasn't unusual for anything off Walsall's allocation to get on there including B6s

[Westy]

529 was never the same for me, after it got transferred to Wolves.

Only saving grace was that you occasionally saw other Wolves specific vehicles types(Spectras, B7 singles, Mercedes & once a Solo!) on there!

Made a change from Trident, Trident, Trident etc from Walsall.

Don't think you ever got an Enviro or Gem on there, for variety.

There was normally one or two Gemins allocated to be on there, and were most days. Wasn't unusual for anything off Walsall's allocation to get on there including B6s

Forgot about the B6. Bloody things.

[wbdriver]

7084 or 7086(can't remember which one) being driven down the Newton Road yesterday by an engineer, blinds removed, on its way to the bus depot in the sky. much joy at WB. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Ash]

7084 or 7086(can't remember which one) being driven down the Newton Road yesterday by an engineer, blinds removed, on its way to the bus depot in the sky. much joy at WB. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Thats one down then hope the other follows shortly much prefer the b6le's (refurbished ones) to these.

[wbdriver]

7084 or 7086(can't remember which one) being driven down the Newton Road yesterday by an engineer, blinds removed, on its way to the bus depot in the sky. much joy at WB. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Thats one down then hope the other follows shortly much prefer the b6le's (refurbished ones) to these.

it might have already gone. hopefully.... possibly some more B6 gone as well, but it looks like 1698 might be back very soon.....

[Ash]

680 made an appearance on 41 last week which led me to think the alx200's are starting to be withdrawn as with 14 of them i thought there would be sufficient numbers to cover, to ensure services like the 41 were 100% alx 200 operated.

[Stuharris 6360]

Surely they will have to keep some ALX200s for the 121?

[Tony]

7084 or 7086(can't remember which one) being driven down the Newton Road yesterday by an engineer, blinds removed, on its way to the bus depot in the sky. much joy at WB. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Thats one down then hope the other follows shortly much prefer the b6le's (refurbished ones) to these.

it might have already gone. hopefully.... possibly some more B6 gone as well, but it looks like 1698 might be back very soon.....

Yes both now in reserve

[wbdriver]

you can get a B6 round the 121, but its very tight. but i don't think all darts will go. some, but not all.

[Ash]

5 vehicles have left so far then (626, 1600, 1634, 7084 and 7086). 7 to go.

They could withdraw 7 Darts, leaving 7 for the 41/44 and 121 (PVR 6 plus 1 spare) and convert the 47/47A back to B6LE operation. But no more than 7.

Only managed to quickly see 2 b6les on the 47/47A so at least 2 b6le's on there if the rest were darts.

[Ashley]

Whats happening with WBs B6LEs then?

[JackC]

Whats happening with WBs B6LEs then?

Hopefully 524 will be off to the scrapper at least. Went on it the other day and it sounded horrendous. And abnormally loud too. Could barely hear myself think over that engine.

[Ash]

Whats happening with WBs B6LEs then?

Hopefully 524 will be off to the scrapper at least. Went on it the other day and it sounded horrendous. And abnormally loud too. Could barely hear myself think over that engine.

524 broke down a couple of weeks ago in Wednesbury it didn't sound seem too good, I haven't saw certain b6le recently at WB but probably just not spotted them 595,674 are two I haven't saw for a while. 4267 sounds terrible it's making a very strange noise when on the move heard it when it went passed me today didn't sound too good at all but WB alx400 are not generally in good shape inside the un-refurbished ones there filthy worn/dirt seats shame the presidents had to go off the 74/75 they were a million times better.