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Has it been confirmed Arriva have retained the Park and Ride services? It doesn't mention Arriva in anything published, unless missed it and local rumours suggest another operator may have won it.

And it became the case, both since turned up in service in Durham!!

Some late speculation from the North West the move may be getting cancelled, owing to the pair due MoT in the next month and reports of chassis concerns? I guess we shall find out shortly!

Reports list Redcar Pulsars, 1433 NK10 CEJ and 1440 NK10 CFA as moving to Arriva North West and Wales this weekend, strange move,

Is there any update on what happened in the end to ex ANE, Temsa 4718 YJ10 DFU? It was suggested it was having the gearbox repaired and going to be sold or donated? Many thanks in advance.

I'm guessing the X54 may drop the odd open top as it did last year, if the weather comes good in the May half term week particularly. So guessing the X50 will return for the peak 6 weeks at least?

Good to hear still going well this one, probably was the best of the three 2985/6/7 at Oswestry. I remember them getting alot of TLC, then a full refurb and repaint.

Well said, it's fairly obvious that the Versas are a better option than the junk they were having to operate prior with chassis issues etc, oh and those ex Yorkshire E200's that last lasted weeks. Lack of investment from DB for a decade really is the issue, it's already been stated on here that...

Which Versas are doing this then a matter of interest? And don't say all of them, as that's not what was seen in Shrewsbury with them all. Granted some of the Versas were kept on locals more often than not as were quite poor, 2977 certainly springs to mind as been somewhat poor, but some could...

13 Versas and all have been repainted and refurbished in recent years, 2977/8/80/4 were done more recently that have moved over. Looking at the condition of some of the buses on visits to both Shrewsbury and Tamworth, I disagree with your comments. The buses that have gone for scrap were mainly...

Last week there there was generally one Evora interworking between the X5 and 53 but there has been numbers this week. The issue is and has always been, if short of V1170 they used to slot V1100 on both the X5, 53 and 64 so why Evoras are doing it. 2988/9 are V1170 (not put into the same 36xx...

2981 was quite active into Oswestry last week and worked on the 53 Saturday. 2980 is the one that appears to be in limbo, assume VOR at Shrewsbury or has it moved? 12 of the 15 Evoras are understood to be in use at Shrewsbury now. Once 2980/1 follow, it would be expected 2960 will follow sister...

Guessing Redcar and their collection of end of life Pulsars from Merseyside are short term until 2027 with cascades?

Edit on bustimes by someone who works at Tamworth, history of providing reliable edits, shows linked to gearbox, but suggests heading for preservation: https://bustimes.org/vehicles/edits?vehicle=189439&status=approved

Suggested investment is for town routes 1/11/24/25/27 at least, but would expect 511/3 to Whitchurch to also be included as sees V1100's. Park and Ride has recently had a rebrand so 2943/2962/3/2966-73 will remain. V1100 Versas do appear regularly if V1170 are not allocated on the day, so...