Walsall Garage

[leewhayward29]

wow i can't wait to see them in person, in walsall town centre.

What route/routes will be 1st with getting them?

[Mike K]

On the main site @Tony put pics of some of walsall platinums at falkirk. They look good, wonder what colour the branding will be. Im thinking a sky blue for X51 and maybe a red branding for the 934/5/6?

On MMC deliveries they have kept the same branding colours so far on the 50, 900 and 957 so I wonder whether 934/5/6 will stay green? This will be the third style of branding the 935 has had in only 4 years (short lived orange branding before the current one).

[BK63 YWP]

On MMC deliveries they have kept the same branding colours so far on the 50, 900 and 957 so I wonder whether 934/5/6 will stay green? This will be the third style of branding the 935 has had in only 4 years (short lived orange branding before the current one).

I remember the orange one. Maybe a yellow branding of some sort? Red for 997?

[Kevin]

Well, the X51's branding was similar to the 51 blue and the 93x similar to the 33 green, which made sense.
But as it all seems to be an interworking nightmare at the moment I'd actually put money on lumping them all together in one "express" brand

[arrifirststage]

Well, the X51's branding was similar to the 51 blue and the 93x similar to the 33 green, which made sense.
But as it all seems to be an interworking nightmare at the moment I'd actually put money on lumping them all together in one "express" brand

As usual,there seems to be more discussion and energy spent on branding suggestions.
A better idea is to scrap all branding ,put the fleet into one livery and use the resources saved into improving important things.

[BU07 LGO]

As it stands everything inter works with each other including normal 51!

[2900]

Routes inter working blind changes back in 98-00 at hockley garage the union  and the then management came to an agreement for the 128/129 where the driverscould just blank the rear blind off rather than just leave 12 8 and 9 in between, personally I hated changing the rear blind asking people to move.

[Trident 4609]

4864 just passed me on the A4124 Lichfield Rd with an engineer driving. It pulled out of Linthouse Lane so i presume it had visited Park Lane depot.

[BU07 LGO]

About 5 or 6 platinums now been delivered to Walsall! Presuming tony will have pics up imminently!

[CL]

About 5 or 6 platinums now been delivered to Walsall! Presuming tony will have pics up imminently!

@BU07 LGO - Well, judging by what's on the main site tonight, with no 'courtesy of' photos, I'm guessing Tony's a bit further north than Walsall, at the moment. lol  ;)

[Tony]

About 5 or 6 platinums now been delivered to Walsall! Presuming tony will have pics up imminently!

And don't expect any more for three weeks. There is nothing wrong and the break is planned. The Falkirk plant still has a fortnight 'industrial holiday break' so production stops, although conspiracy theorists and ill-informed will no doubt think that there is something delaying them.

[Tony]

@BU07 LGO - Well, judging by what's on the main site tonight, with no 'courtesy of' photos, I'm guessing Tony's a bit further north than Walsall.

No, those photos were dated yesterday, the photo of the Farid white coach is the one dated today, parked outside 1 lancaster Circus where I work

[CL]

No, those photos were dated yesterday, the photo of the Farid white coach is the one dated today, parked outside 1 lancaster Circus where I work

Apologies for not checking the date stamp. Any reason why they wasn't place in the correct date? It looks like the main site could've accommodated for another three photos... ???

On the other hand, they are great photos. It gives us an insight to what bus manufacturers look like from the inside.  :)

[Tony]

Apologies for not checking the date stamp. Any reason why they wasn't place in the correct date? It looks like the main site could've accommodated for another three photos... ???

On the other hand, they are great photos. It gives us an insight to what bus manufacturers look like from the inside.

Perhaps it was because I had been to Falkirk on a day trip and was tired when I got home and couldn't be bothered to put every photo taken on!

[2900]

Tony: great shots from ADL,s Falkirk factory, are  the chassis still built in Guildford at the Dennis plant or has everything been intregated at Falkirk and Scarborough sites.