West Bromwich Garage

[4679]

Looking at the running boards for the timetable change Sunday looks like WB are taking over the 45 again for the time being as both 46 running boards have daytime journeys on 45.

[Solo1]

Good to see west brom garage has made a shuttle bus available for Oldbury rota drivers from 9am till 1700 , running every 20 minutes between garage and Oldbury.
I hope it's replicated at other garages too.

pensnett are using 4  buses from  wednesbury wmsnt depot   for shuttle 

[979]

Good to see west brom garage has made a shuttle bus available for Oldbury rota drivers from 9am till 1700 , running every 20 minutes between garage and Oldbury.
I hope it's replicated at other garages too.

Makes me wonder why they need such long breaks in the first place when there's spare staff this is just adding to social gathering. should be straight through duties and go home.

[Solo1]

Al to do with the driving time & breaks

[2900]

Makes me wonder why they need such long breaks in the first place when there's spare staff this is just adding to social gathering. should be straight through duties and go home.

Yeah they should be straight through duties, what about the late night drivers what are they going to do after 1700hrs

[979]

Yeah they should be straight through duties, what about the late night drivers what are they going to do after 1700hrs

No idea with breaks in the ghost town a bit unfair in the current climate.

[4679]

@Paul are you sure 4917 is on 44 as that route should be e200s only due to low hanging trees and tight roads. Have you got a picture?

[Paul]

Yes I was on the bus it didn't have many issues with trees although the driver kept looking up from his cab. It did have problems turning into other roads though mounting the kerb surely was a rare sight though.

[Paul]

4962 on WB44

[4679]

Sticking a decker on the 44 doesn't make sense at the best of times it hardly picks anyone up.
I thought WB had 7 short e200s and 732 on loan so why use a 49xx.

[Tony]

Current operational fleet
758
760
761
762
763
764
4914
4915
4916
4917
4918
4950
4951
4952
4953
4954
4955
4956
4957
4958
4959
4960
4961
4962
4963
4964
4965
4966
4967
4968
4969
4970
4971
4972
4973
4974
4982
6970
6971
6972
6973
6974
6975
6976
6977
6978
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6981
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6984
6985
6986
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6990
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6992
6993

[Tony]

I'm just reinstating 4741, 4743, 4747; 4749; 4975; 4977; 4978; 4979; 4980; 4981 for the service increase next week

[37351ml]

Just looking through my historic notes, Thursday 16 May 1985 - 4535 was noted on the 406, PB vehicle at that time.

[4679]

@Tony any idea what will happen to the Untrapped 42xx will they be withdrawn or Reinstated.

[Tony]

@Tony any idea what will happen to the Untrapped 42xx will they be withdrawn or Reinstated.

All vehicles that were allocated to garages as at lockdown service cuts are all being reinstated from 1/6/20