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Been brewing behind the scenes for a while now. Suggested Lloyds will only operate one AM working to Welshpool and otherwise will just be on Machynlleth to Newtown. Tanat Valley will come off the Newtown to Machynlleth section and operate the rest of the service, bar the one Welshpool trip if...

VDL SB200, Wright Pulsar 1 and 2 for me, not a fan of modern buses but these sound good and go well on the right route and driver.

Noted one of the Yellow open tops gained Sunseeker late last week. I think it was 37747 SF09 LDZ as saw LDE still running around unbranded but don't think it was LDD. I saw it passing St Erth with a engineer driving it (Friday), presumably Camborne bound from Penzance, or some kind of test run...

Oswestry has faced speculation for over a decade, particularly off larger Midlands depot, some which were subsequently sold off. Oswestry staff have even speculated it over the years, but continued to work hard at a small and friendly depot, it had a family feel amongst the staff there...

Driving staff at Oswestry have been offered to option to transfer to Wrexham with the 2/2A/2C or to Shrewsbury with the X5 and 53 or sadly face redundancy. The 53 has secured funding for the moment to continue but awkward to operate from Shrewsbury depot. Without trying to be too negative...

Arriva Midlands, Oswestry depot proposed closure too, sad times: source Arriva: https://www.arrivabus.co.uk/latest-news/oswestry-depot

I suggest at Prestatyn changing to a 13 if connecting is a reasonable wait, 29 minutes then to Abergele, cutting out the faff of Rhyl if you wanted to avoid it.

Locally the reaction is not good as expected for those with an interest, the majority of passengers have little or no clue for what is in store for them as yet it seems. The 401 Oswestry Town Service to Aston Way is operational with journeys between 09:15 and 13:15, the remainder before and...

Will be interesting for Arriva Midlands, Oswestry depot that operate on the 2/2A/2C services into Wrexham, and have common sections to the south Wrexham with Arriva Cymru routes 3/4/5. Oswestry had to cut back their 2C Wrexham to Cefn Mawr, temporarily to hourly from a 30 minute back in October...

Had some trips on the T10 this week starting from the Corwen end and a quick update on observations. Sunday, a last minute drive over to Corwen and a quick plan to get the 14:15 departure for Bangor with a purchase of a One Bws Ticket, my first opportunity. The journeys through to Corwen were...

I used the service last week on a Weekly Gold ticket and saw a number of concessionary passes being used by other passengers.

Again you are on the money with your reply, Oswestry has lower wages to Wrexham and Shrewsbury, lower depot overheads. If Shrewsbury depot took the whole of the 70 on, they would have a number of dead runs and early positional runs to start normal service at Oswestry for passenger flows and...

Yes the routes were jointly operated until around 2006 when Oswestry took on the full service, as per what was previously outlined with head office in Sunderland (pre DB days) deciding Oswestry should run it all, so not sure what point your actually trying to make with the reply? It's due to...

Yes spot on there on all account. Much demand is heading out of Oswestry, particularly for those commuting to other bigger towns for work (done so for years on and off to Shrewsbury myself) and even a good number of college students use the services (or did pre covid) for attending larger...

Yes indeed if Oswestry management passed to North West aka Cymru control, that would be a strong possibility Oswestry would be less viable and the changes you suggest would likely happen. I'm sure you know the history of the 2/2A/2B/2C as it was then when it went to a 30 minute service Wrexham...