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Well, as HS1 was CTRL (Channel Tunnel Rail Link), then HS2 could be called WMRL (West Midlands Rail Link)?

I'm 99% sure there was a plan at one stage for a extension along those lines to the M6 J7 and a Park and Ride.

To be fair, Abellio UK is now a MBO after the directors brought Abellio out

I'm surprised that the Birmingham Outer Circle doesn't have input from Perry Barr, especially as the route near enough passes that depot as well as Acocks Green

Birmingham International Coaches is owned by the same people who owned Claribels (the bus op who Diamond brought a couple of years ago)

Nothing on the Bus Operator Search on gov.uk. Companies House shows them as being a London registered firm (presumably an accommodation address) previously registered in Dudley in May 2023. Not to be confused with the 1980s/1990s Birmingham Coach Company which became Go West Midlands/Diamond Bus

And Bracknell also had class codes at one stage as a prefix for the national Fleet numbers

It's deliberate to stop people copying and pasting off it

They're a East Midlands and Essex operator who also provide a "transport solutions consultancy". They recently purchased Galleon Travel as well as having their existing operations

It'll be interesting to see if the MMCs are for the 19 (Bloxwich), as all routes in the West Midlands area have to be Euro VI

Am I right that after Monday, DBNW (Diamond Bus North West) will have a fleet of 79 to do their Bee Network, TfGM and commercial stuff?

There is a Free shuttle bus from Wolverhampton Bus Station (not Low Floor, numbered 598) and a normal bus (low floor, number 2 to Bushbury Hill). Timetable is on this PDF - https://nxbus.co.uk/media/11623/2023-shuttle-bus-timetable.pdf If coming from Dudley, Stourbridge or Penn, there is also...

Funnily enough the first "X" routes were the X51 and X96 (the latter being because it was initially limited stop Holly Hall to Dudley, then slowly made all stops to Dudley but was the most direct route to Merry Hill from Stourbridge and Dudley)

Isn't the routes at Wythenshawe meant to be coming under Bee Network in 2025?

As an aside, does anyone know what happened to the open top decker Diamond East Mids had. Also, I think read somewhere that Diamond was losing their Derby routes soon but I'm not 100% sure. Does anyone know if its true or not as I'm planning on heading to Derby middle of next month and was...

Route One article below https://www.route-one.net/legal/north_warwickshire_travel_director_disqualified_indefinitely/

De-Luxe... oh, Mr Mike James eh? I'm surprised he's ventured back into buses after bring banned multiple times by the Traffic Comissioner. Funnily enough he ran the Clifton Campville - Tamworth services when he ran Heartlands/Tamworth Coach and Bus

The X21 and the X22 are the direct to University from City buses, they only really skip 1 stop The X8 and X10 is only limited stop so people have to use the 9 for intermediate stops

Because the 11 used to be numbered 12, and there was a 11U as well at one stage (iirc) There used to be in the early 2000s a 112 and 12A which were variations of it too, plus a 12W to Westwood Business Park

The limited stop routes are 907 934-937 Kingstanding Expresses 997 X1/X2 X3-X5 Sutton Coldfield Expresses X8 X12 X13 X14 X30 Ansty Park X51 Walsall Road Express That's because it's a more direct version of the 11 to the University