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Cymru need smaller Euro 6 vehicles for recent tender wins.

The chassis of B176 FFS ended up with Rhondda Buses and received an East Lancs bus body Rhondda Buses 704 B660 EGG Maerdy 2nd January 1996. It was later re-registered A14 RBL and survived into Stagecoach days even receiving beachball livery. If it carried Stagecoach livery with Fife this would...

The two Van Hool bodied Volvo B10Ms new to Hutchison, Overtown B947/8 ASU. 947 seen here with Rhondda Buses Rhondda Buses 705 (B947 ASU) Pontypridd 29 December 1995. 948 is preserved in West Wales.

It's all change after Easter as a result of a big retendering exercise. Operators were asked to identify services which could be operated without subsidy (not many) and the rest were put out to tender. Results are beginning to trickle through but the big losers so far seem to be Adventure Travel...

Cardiff's open topper was out on the Baycar service on Friday (6th October).

They don't help themselves make a case for retaining the MMCs when they continually appear on local services leaving Solos, short StreetLites and standard Enviro 200s to cover Clipper service.

The owners of the site wanted to develop an upmarket burger restaurant with car parking and Volvo and Optare buses weren't part of the vision. The lease was not renewed and then lockdown happened. Some drivers still work out of Brecon using the restroom in the Interchange as a base.

Blackwood to Newport - Stagecoach 151 every 15 minutes taking 1 hour 4 minutes (using former Gold Dart MMCs and Enviro 300s) compared with the 56 which is hourly taking 50 minutes (using anything Caerphilly depot chucks out on it).

The current T6 tender ends in September. This seems to be a similar proced to what happened with the T1 and T5 earlier in the year when the incumbent operator deregistered The service from the date of expiry and a lot of people got very excited. There will doubtless be a new registration once...

There are so many new starters/agency drivers at Merthyr at present, it's sometimes difficult to distinguish the staff from the passengers.

I don't think the likes of Newport will change away from Yutong just because someone doesn't like the aesthetics.

No - finished several years ago.

Add Adventure Travel to that on the service from Abergavenny.

I can assure you that in a report from the Carlton yards on 6th September it was with Trevor Wigley so First no longer own it and it's not coming back.

Remains were still noted there last month. Wigleys either despatch quickly or allow stuff to linger for years.