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The Kidderminster running card that started om the Montgomery outstation (a pub car park) and ending up on a Dudley late night Centro contract was one of the many examples of how the then Commercial Director Melvyn Thomas got the most productive use of the vehicles. Another was the weekend Birmingha...

47611's first visit to Bromsgrove

Some of the Manchester franchise routes First stated operating March require new Mellor vehicles to operate them which presumably because of the problems the manufacturer was having the delivery is running late so First drafted in a number of Streetlites in to cover the services. Some have been pain...

First will be operating the contracts and not necessarily taking the vehicles. With First purchasing electric buses for a number of their operating companies this has created surplus vehicles some of which already have found their way to Worcester in recent months. The key issue at the moment is the...

The Worcester Streetdecks are Euro VI emission standards The Enviro 400MMC that were built post 2015 are built with Euro VI engines. It is impossible to put the latter Euro VI engine into the original design of Enviro 400 like the 2 transferred to Worcester last week. The Euro VI engine takes up mor...

Interestingly 44610 comes with the registration mark YX14RUY bring back what would have been under old system a UY Worcestershire registration rather than the actual Yorkshire area code it carries being built by ADL at their Scarborough factory. In MRW days minibuses 1361-1404 had RUY registrations

47469 has gone the other way in exchange

I Would not get too excited as the suggested uses for the funding are as follows: [building new roads and improving junctions installing or expanding mass transit systems improving roads by filling in potholes and better street lighting for personal safety improving journey times for car and bus use...

30858 has been joined by 20181 at Redditch which is in full Preston Bus livery complete with fleet names. It was on the 58 route yesterday afternoon. It was tracking as 20014