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Call me cynical, but I'm a bit worried about this increasing reliance on Chinese technology. But looking on the bright side, at least they'll probably know where you live so they can take you all the way home.

Presumably, if TfL purchase a few more trains for the Elizabeth line (to provide extra connections to Old Oak Common) they would prefer them to be on the Adventra platform rather than mixing them with a new type of train

Absolutely. Especially on a Sunday

Some government departments are moving from 3 days max WFH to 2 days max WFH from April. Will be interesting to see what effect this has on pax loading and capacity requirements.

It skipped Sunnymeads, but everything's skipping Sunnymeads today

Was causing delays of more than 15 minutes yesterday. More delay repays. Also causing cancellations this morning.

Worth watching the above. One of the main points is that once the Aventra production line stops in about six weeks time, there will be a dearth of orders until things really start to pick up from 2027 onwards . Derby will probably survive but it will be an assembly plant employing hundreds...

Southanpton AEC Regent V. The later East Lancs ones were very ahead of their time internally, but the earlier ParK Royal ones had a certain utilitarian charm.

St Mary's is about a 15 minute walk to the main pound tree road bus interchange, 25 minutes to the central station, so perfectly doable for a fit football supporter. (There is also a P&R)

Needs to be a transformer.

But the diesel buses will still be branded Optare.

For younger readers (or very old readers) , the childrens' character Brian was a snail.

As they are owned by Ashok Leyland it might be better if they could use the Leyland name, unless anybody else has rights to it.

Reading's open top Trident is on the mainstream route 17 today -- in October

It was actually operating on the 17 last Friday, though the nice weather unfortunately didn't prolong until the next day.

MM would be Marchwood Motorways, who were the original occupants of the Totton site (being absorbed by Solent Blue Line after what was originally a franchise agreement)

More detail in the attached https://www.route-one.net/news/bluestar-takes-on-former-first-bus-southampton-depot/

According to 'Buses' magazine there are six of these. Four in blue and two in green for the Giant's Causeway shuttles

Most of the Empress road vehicles were previously stationed at Barton Park in Eastleigh. Barton Park is an industrial estate which in recent weeks has had buses parked all over the place. I think there will still be maintenance/ refurbishment facilities at BP, but not so many buses based there.

Empress Road now has Bluestar logos and apparently they were due to move in this weekend.