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Just watched a YouTube video by Alex (and more central) about four First Group battery conversions of diesel Streetdecks. He rode on two of them and gave a very brief history of them. Alex suggested that the only real difference between these and brand new Electroliners was they didn't have USB...

Not from the industry so interested to learn stuff !! I notice the word "board" used in connection with bus routes. Is this a historic thing ? From memory in the West Midlands (WMPTE era) drivers would often have a clipboard shoved down between the windscreen and the dash. Is this the...

Wonder if anyone can help with with a question about these buses which EFE released some diecast models of over the last 25ish years. EFE27101 is finished and numbered to look like an ex Midland Red LS18 5244 painted in WMPTE blue and cream. EFE27102 is painted in Midland Red livery as Midland...

Just wondering how this is going to happen, and what the boundaries are likely to be. At present NXWM have quite an operation within the West Midlands county but also on routes outside into Staffordshire and Warwickshire, possibly also into Worcestershire. As NXWM is as commercial operation I...

I moved from the Walsall area to South Staffordshire in 1996 and although West Midlands operated the Walsall - Cannock - Hednesford route we were technically in Midland Red trrritory. We did have the local Green bus service admittedly, but it was mostly the carved up remnants of "The Red". So I...

Woncer if anyone on here is interested in the Leyland PD2s and PD3s - in particular the ones with the streamline noses. I am interested in creating a OO scale model of two of the Harpers of Heath Hayes fleet and trying to understand them. As I understand it Harper Brothers of Heath Hayes...

I am in Staffordshire but work in Birmngham city centre so am only really familiar with Birmingham, and Walsall and South Staffordshire fleets. I am conscious though of the development of electric buses. Lat time I was at Birmingham airport I saw a couple of elewctric vehicles and thier...

Moderator note - split from: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/wmr-class-196-build-and-implementation.166065/ Aa a matter of interest, what is the situation with the 196s with regard to equipment for operating DCO / DOO ? I seem to recall reports at the start of their delivery, saying...

Seen mentions in various media of 37601 being renumbered to 37501 during a repaint at Loughborough works. Would this have the same modifications as 37508 which was 37606 before it's wpiac lights were removed ? I understand the reason why 37508 was retro liveried and de-wipac d, but is there a...

Bit of a strange request here. My wife's colleague who lives near Stafford would like to visit the Isle of Lewis. I have had a quick google and it strikes me that catching 1S25 from Crewe to Inverness might be a good starting point, then maybe a coach from Inveness to Ullapool for the ferry...

Walking along Priory Queensway at 0600 on Wednesday passed the Wesleyan building when a dark blue decker roared past and stopped at the stand used by the 16 and 16A. I did a double take and saw it was a Thandi bus which looked like an Olympian. Registration looked like THZ3390 but photos of the...

7Z47 1347 Wednesday EastRiggs - Fairwater 47832 and 57601 powering ADB965217 and ADB965240 For the record pool 8191 contains the following showing at, and all appear to have been constructed in 1965 ADB965203 Fort william ADB965206 Inverness ADB965208 Norwich ADB965209 Eastriggs ADB965210...

As I understand it all nineteen units were returned to Long Marston off lease. Since then I believe two units were moved to Kilmarnock (possibly Brodies) have been delivered blue and now seem to be running trials in the Glasgow area. Last week i believe one or maybe two 769/9s were hauled...

Please pardon what is probably a very simple question, because I am in the rail industry with probablymany differences. There seems to be quite a movement of vehicles between garages / depots, sometimes timetable changes, sometimes reliveries, sometimes new vehicles or transfers. In the recent...

I wonder if someone could help with a query please. My wife (62) and her friend (70) are not very savvy public travellers and have gone to London for the weekend, for the C2C weekend at the O2 arena and are staying near Royal Victoria dock. My suggestion for them was to travel to Euston, then...

37610 and 37800 with barrier vans moved a class 175 as 5Q60 0954 Holyhead-Central Rivers on Monday. The move ran via Chester, Ccewe, Penkridge and Walsall. Cenral Rivers depot is an Alstom location and the 170 is an Alstom product

Bloody hell. The pretendolino. What happened to that ?

Hi all. Hope someone can satisfy my curiosity yesterday please. Driving M6 south yesterday passing J7 at about 1430 when i noticed a decker heading north. It looked for all the world like a 1970s era MCW or Park Royal bodied fleetline but with a centre staircase which nay have been dual doors...

This book by Mike Hollick and being published by the LNWR Society on 17th July, documents the traction changes from the 1950s to the late 1960s to the railways in the West Midlands. The scope is pretty much the LNWR boundaries stretching from Rugby in the Eastto just shy of Stafford, and...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/east-west-rail-ewr-oxford-bletchley-construction-progress.216561/ I agree. As the population of the UK is ever expanding, more people will be living in the Shire counties in future. It is funny really, when went to school well...