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The first bus repainted into WESTbus green was 33790 - a Bath bus. Yesterday, it was carrying the message deep into Wiltshire, on the D1x! So it looks like WESTbus' boudaries are actually those of F.WoE, rather than just those of WECA. 1728634488 36231 is now at LH and was on the 50 yesterday...

Well done, Bob - good detective work! 37676-9 were only transferred to Oldham from York last September!

An easy enough job to turn the forthcoming 77 at Horfield Common/Muller Road Top, but if the other end is to be at "Henleaze Lake", where on earth is there a suitable place to turn a bus around? Yes, they used to do a full turn at the end of Wellington Hill West in the long-gone days of the 145...

I think it is tragic that the 36 is to be renumbered - it is Bristol’s longest serving route, having been introduced around ONE HUNDRED years ago. And for what benefit? Regarding the 77, can we expect a reduction of frequency on the 2/2a and 75/76, because the 77 is to cover the busier...

Transpora is taking delivery of some brand-new Enviro200 MMCs. The first is at work in Bristol and is 40-seater YX23 OTA, numbered 1299. It was collected last Friday. At least one more is due here, while two are destined for Bournemouth.

Well done, Rhys, for taking on the challenge of running service 25, presumably without council funding. But I was wondering why it's running beyond the Eastgate Centre to Horfield? Surely Muller Road has sufficient coverage with the First 17. I should have thought it would be better to give back...

Thanks for being polite and not highlighting a silly mistake I made! That being, that the 11 Park & Ride MMCs had been at Hengrove and not Lawrence Hill. Lawrence Hill is due to receive 36824 also, I understand, once repairs to an RTA are made, and I did include it in the moves already, hence 15...

I have today done a tally of the total of double-deckers in and out of each of First West of England's five depots. Bath takes in 11, but loses 20! (So down 9); Hengrove takes in 13 (including ex-Glasgow), while losing the nine StreetDecks to Weston (up 4); Lawrence Hill receives 15 (including...

For the record, 10985-7 are also now at Patchway and were in service yesterday on the 10 and the 11/12. That brings the total to eleven. 10750, however, is still tracking on Cheltemham's 94, so will it be moving to Patchway?

As a matter of interest, yesterday (Friday 24th), north Bristol's services 10 and 11 & 12 were operated entirely by double-deckers. At the time of monitoring about 09:15, the 10 had 18413, 15769 and Gold 10752, the 11 had 18314, 15768 and Gold 10984 and the 12 had Ocean-green 18420 and Gold...

1679170267 Many thanks for that full account! You must keep a daily tally on everything and not just in Bath. Well done.

37611 is now working in Bristol. I photographed it on the 47 this morning. 1679075145 Actually, are you sure 37611 was at Weston? The wmbusphotos.com First changes pages show it as Hengrove - Marlborough Street in Period 6 2018/19, then Marlborough Street to Lawrence Hill by 7/3/22.

Thanks, Marcus. Buses on the 52 are being tracked on the MyTrip app that the buses themselves promote. Today it is showing YX68 URF as being on the route. But I find it a very difficult app to get results from. Incidentally, now think report of the Enviro400 carrying Stagecoach names was a...

For the record, YX22 OHY was at work in Bristol, in full Transpora condition as number 1331, on rail-replacement work in the last week of December 2022. 1676721608 Sorry - typo - number 1330, of course. 1676742955 Further research shows YX22 OHY was here in November. Can anyone improve on...

Yes, I saw that it was m3-branded 39485 that was on the m4 on Saturday and I thought, "oh, here we go!" Talking of next-stop announcements, BathBuses, I rode on 33958 on the 1 back in December (one of few whose NSA is still in use), but the words had become distorted - instead of "Next Stop...