Arriva take over Midland

[the trainbasher]

Looks like its been cleared

[NXWM Spectra]

Looks like its been cleared

Great!
The 3 remaining Arriva MPDs at Wednesfield can enter service and the DAFs can operate without the Midland stickers.

[covlad27]

All clearance given it will be interesting to see what happens now

[Bob]

As of today do Midland bus services accept Arriva Midlands Daysavers then??

[jarh_9394]

No, that sort of thing doesn't happen immediately.

[jarh_9394]

Looks like its been cleared

Great!
The 3 remaining Arriva MPDs at Wednesfield can enter service and the DAFs can operate without the Midland stickers.

2154 is due back Saturday and 2152 has been collected now, so there are 5 at present.

[Tony]

Looks like its been cleared

Great!
The 3 remaining Arriva MPDs at Wednesfield can enter service and the DAFs can operate without the Midland stickers.

2154 is due back Saturday and 2152 has been collected now, so there are 5 at present.

Another 6 have arrived in the Midlands fleet now, 2156-62, 2156-61 are as yet unallocated, 2162 has been allocated to Burton. They will appear on the fleetlist on the main site along with other recent changes tonight

[jarh_9394]

We are also due 2133, 2218, 2284 and 2288.

[Tony]

We are also due 2133, 2218, 2284 and 2288.

All just put to reserve from Burton. Just to please Bob 2284 and 2288 were both new to Cannock on the Pye Greens!

[Bob]

Will any of Cannocks MPDs be joining them? Would be nice to see the back of the horrid things! Vile

[Bob]

I remember the V-KDA darts on the Pye Greens, it quickly became apparent that they werent big enough. I wonder if the takeover will result in any review of Cannock based services, about time there was a revamp. There are, according to the express & star changes planned for the 68 service to improve it, what they will be i dont know, cant see that theres much they could do to it

[nx4737]

Will any of Cannocks MPDs be joining them? Would be nice to see the back of the horrid things! Vile

Does every thread have to resort to Cannock bashing?

[Ashley]

I saw a VDL SB200 with leicester branding in Wolverhampton yesterday.

[Discodave]

I saw a VDL SB200 with leicester branding in Wolverhampton yesterday.

I saw it by me on the 560 so being used at Cannock at the moment by the way it looks.

[Discodave]

We are also due 2133, 2218, 2284 and 2288.

Yes I have seen the new buses in the Yard but still only small ones apart from the decker are they going to have some larger ones.  Its a good start but are Arriva going to show they mean business and not just another garage running tendered (apart from the 10).  They have a good base to start expanding if they are interested.