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An 11th also exists - BV14 TZY, which is with Yarrantons Brothers of Eardiston, in Worcestershire. Formerly a demonstrator, until it was acquired by them in 2020 for the 291 that they took on at the time. https://flic.kr/p/2niyd4w In terms of unusual combinations of body and chassis, the MCV...

By a very long margin: Fastest trips on the 529 are given 28 minutes between Wolverhampton and Walsall. On average, it's given 37-38 minutes during the day. For comparison, the daytime journey on the train is 62 minutes. It was briefly even wider when the X529 ran - 28 minutes during the day.

You're joking, right? The producer of shows like Years & Years, and It's a Sin, and you expect it to not be (in your own words) "preaching, woke, PC"? Sure. Then again, if you think that, you probably missed the various political messages during Russell T Davies's first run, or hell, the fact...

Telford has had deckers in fairly recent history, and still does, albeit only on a school working of the X5, the SX5 run by Regional Transport, and University of Wolverhampton's own fleet of deckers, which run the intercampus routes. So nothing to the general public, but still sees deckers on a...

Midland Classic's peak only 402A (Burton - Uttoxeter) has the longest one I can think of - about 10 miles all in all, iirc to serve the village of Abbots Bromley, in lieu of the 403 (which runs off peak only), alongside a considerably shorter one to serve Draycott in the Clay. Both villages are...

Pushing a bit further back than the last decade, but National Express West Midlands (NXWM) X51 is one of the nost prominent examples, in my eyes. Formerly the 951/951A, one of the many iterations of the Birmingham - Walsall - Cannock "Timesaver" routes, the 951 had been drastically reduced over...

Used to love doing the 60 end to end when deCourcey put one of their deckers on there. Shame it's Stagecoach E200s now. Another contender, NXWM 25 - Wolverhampton - Goldthorn Park - Bilston - Willenhall - Wednesfield - Wood End - The Scotlands - Bushbury Hill - Wobaston - i54 - Pendeford or...

The old 99, Birmingham - QE Hospital - Harborne - Quinton - Halesowen. Went in 2017, with the branded Enviro200s for it scattering across depots. Replaced by extending the 244 (Dudley - Halesowen & Hayley Green) to the QE Hospital, and revising the X64 to operate through Vale Village, rather...

While not officially confirmed to be gone (or I've not seen any confirmation of that) the former Chase 1 (Cannock to Walsall direct) was suspended at the start of lockdown in March, and hasn't returned since. In the same vein, the 3 between Cannock, Brownhills and Walsall was also cut back to...

MCW Metrobuses, Volvo B6LE/Wright Crusaders, Volvo B10Bs, Dennis Tridents and the odd Volvo B10L for me, plus Chase's fleet of Nationals. The benefits of growing up in Willenhall in the early to mid 2000s, near enough every type in the TWM fleet operated through the town at some point. Only...

I can remember when i first got a mobile phone (early 2011), but I'll be damned if i can remember what model it was. It wasn't a very expensive one (i think it was about 30 pounds from Argos, which was probably for the best, as i managed to lose it within 6 months), but it was on Orange. First...

60 & 703 are Stagecoach (they were announced as passing to them last week, effective today) 585 is still unclear, though TFWM & Warwickshire CC are working on a replacement (though I'd expect Stagecoach to pick that up, as they already have the Sunday service) X6 is Arriva, starting tomorrow...

Most of that trip can still be done normally - albeit with a hell of a lot of careful timing 892 is now Banga's 891, and usually a Solo and a Solo SR, every hour Monday to Friday, every 2 hours Saturdays. Arriva came off the 8 (their 891 renumbered) back in 2016. X5 is normally Versas, and...

I'd argue that NXWM's X51 between Birmingham and Walsall fits this pretty well: From its launch in late 2007 (replacing the sporadic peak time only 951), at every 20 minutes (iirc) using whatever single deckers Walsall could chuck out, the route has grown exponentially over the past 12 or so...

Nope, only thing that climbs Bell End is the 14 between Dudley and Halesowen, though the X8 does have "Next Stop: Bell End" on its PIS. Yet "Fighting Cocks" isn't used on the 1 in Wolverhampton...

Full retrim, leather headrests, Wi-Fi, USB & Wireless charging facilities, possibly new flooring as well. The Knotty Scanias are the same, except with low backed seats, and no wireless charging iirc.

Definitely mentioned TP Express on the filming notice, can't remember the message exactly, but it was along the lines of "We're filming a fly on the wall documentary on the day to day running of TP Express"

They were filming in Manchester Piccadilly on Saturday evening, as i may be in amongst the crowd somewhere (didn't notice they were filming until I saw the notices on their hi-vizes.

The X17? Apart from it being an all stops service, and not really one that warrants brand new vehicles (cascaded E400s would almost certainly be fine), there isn't really that much fast running on it (between Leamington and Kenilworth Square, and Kenilworth Park Lane and Gibbet Hill Road at...

"I'll try to do these more often" - well, that went out of the window, didn't it... Anyway, here's one of my summer trips... Friday 30th August Welsh wandering... Quite a late start for me for once on one of these trips, as i didn't have to be up until half 7, which gave me plenty of time to...