Cannock Garage

[Steveminor]

Accidents can & do happen.

[arrivadays]

The depot is like two minutes down the road!

Um, maybe it took about 5 minutes to not only get the required tools/supplies, and then drive up (traffic permitting).

[Bob]

Accidents can & do happen.

Yea sure but three brand new vehicles?  Jesus. The decker (4204) didnt get sorted in 5 mins it was due out at 430 and still in the bus station at 4, 55. Those who were going all the way were advised to wait for the 74 to come.  Those who were unfortunate enough to be going to penkridge had to wait

[Bob]

Only two deckers out again today! Hope its not a pulsar on the 1440 back if its as busy as the one last week

[Bob]

Guy going mad that the 1317 75 at the green in stafford hadnt turned up at all. I got the 1347 74 which was a decker carrying almost a full load. One of the deckers appears to have been taken off and replaced with BU03 HRE. A totally unsuitable 36/37 seater bus....

[Westy]

You get around Bob!

[Bob]

Into stafford for work today :-) the 8.20am in and the 1.47 out were both very busy. Surprisingly the afternoon one was busier than the morning one

[Bob]

Two pulsars again on staffords....V606 DBC back in service on 825

[Ashley]

Two pulsars again on staffords....V606 DBC back in service on 825

3606 has been on loan to Shrewsbury recently
3608 has been repainted in some kind of Sapphire mock livery

[Bob]

V606 isnt a bad bus. Good to see it back !

[646]

Two pulsars again on staffords....V606 DBC back in service on 825

3606 has been on loan to Shrewsbury recently
3608 has been repainted in some kind of Sapphire mock livery

3608 is to become a training vehicle, and this is the new livery. Scania/Irizar 6764 MW is another such example.

[Tony]

Two pulsars again on staffords....V606 DBC back in service on 825

3606 has been on loan to Shrewsbury recently
3608 has been repainted in some kind of Sapphire mock livery

3608 is to become a training vehicle, and this is the new livery. Scania/Irizar 6764 MW is another such example.

Is 6764MW really fleetnumber 9258 that it carries or should it be 9528 in the normal training bus series?

[Bob]

It says on fleet changes list 2209-? Not on fleetlist. 2209 is still in service in cannock. Apparently 2701 has gone in for a refurb. Wonder if its going elsewhere? As most cannock buses that get refurbished do. The two commanders ( bf52 0ab/c I think) were re done and moved immediately while the ones that stayed were never done.  V609 DBC had a recent respray and light refurb shortly before either being withdrawn or moved. The ejz plate dart was moved to stafford as was X523 GGO while all the remaining ones werent done. Theyre really slow at refurbs it seems to take an eternity. Out of the 51 plates only BU51 KWN has been done and sn53 esg has had its seats retrimmed but no repaint. Anyone know which if any other buses are planned to be done? Are all the ex route1 buses going to be refurbished and resprayed,  and the stafford pulsars will they get a repaint instead of just branding removed? Both have had their respective liveries since 2007 & are looking really tired one of the staffords has turned bright blue at the back

[Cheese]

Versa 2939 was noted on an 825 earlier heading towards the hospital in Stafford. Was this on loan to Cannock or do Stafford depot run some journeys on the 825 now?

[Bob]

Theres been an increase in frequency during peaks so maybe? Dont think stafford run any 825 trips tho. But maybe theyve started to. Either that or the versa could be at cannock for some work to be done or whatever and has been put into service temporarily while there