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I thought that was a Wythall bus that had gone on extended loan to be restored? Last time I saw that bus at Wythall it looked all in one piece with reasonably sound external bodywork, so what on earth has happened in the last ten or so years to bring it into such a badly damaged state especially th...

If it takes very nearly three months to procure the spares and replace all the battered panels in the lower parts of a relatively small E200 single-decker, however long is it going to take to bring the rest of a very tatty fleet (63 vehicles?) up to anything like the standard of the buses transferre...

Yesterday, Sunday 6 April 2025, saw the Vintage Trains Shakespeare Express charter work from Worcester Shrub Hill to Stratford-upon-Avon hauled by Great Western steam loco 7029 'Clun Castle'. Class 37 diesel loco 37240 hauled the train in from Tyseley and worked the empty stock back in the evening i...

The attached article appeared in the Mail on Sunday, yesterday 30 March 2025, giving brief schematic details of HydroFLEX unit 799201 power source. However, 18 tons of hydrogen canisters and safety equipment seems excessive especially if designed to provide branch line services. I read that producti...

Here's where the budget has been spent. Battery operated buses working a 45 mile round X1 trip from Weston-Super-Mare to Bristol with Chinese built Yutong double-deckers at that. Is there rapid charging each end as I doubt whether the range is much better than 120 miles in ideal conditions, I'm also...

Thanks Tim for your frequent supply of photos and detailed information. According to posts on the internet they are only here because the space was needed at Weston for the new battery electrics that have displaced them, and that they will go for repaint, then Norwich and "Up North". Than...

With kind permission of Bob Hemming here are photographs of the Badgerline Streetdecks parked on Padmore Street 'patch'. They have Wright H45/26F bodywork. 35683, MF22SYU; 35684, MF22 SYV; & 35686, MF22 SYX new 03/2022 and 35692, MF22 SZG new 04/2022. The following taken from Pheasant Street gat...

[/quote] The front of 908 was painted red and cream quite quickly, but the rest of the bus took way more than a month to see the inside of a paintshop. I think it was just over a year before it was done, meanwhile several replacement panels were painted leaving it looking like at patchwork quilt! I ...

In confirmation to the above information, my records show the following: Leyland National NL116L/11 chassis with Leyland 680 11.1 litre engine and integral Leyland 49 seat single deck body B49F. Fleet no. 905, Reg No: BOU 5V, Body: Leyland. Bristol (3530) new 09/80 with B52F layout, South Wales (798...

As from 20 April 2025 Diamond Bus are introducing a new hourly service, the 25A, from Dudley to Kidderminster via Merry Hill and Stourbridge. This replaces and augments the 125 which previously ran from Bridgnorth to Stourbridge via Kidderminster and is planned to terminate at Kidderminster. https:/...