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Rumour is that the existing Park and ride fleet is being split between Bedford and Peterborough. Bedford depot need them for the 905 and MK1 which are supposed be MMC's as well as the X5 but they haven't got enough of them. 20 deckers are needed to run the 3 services and only 15 E400 MMC's are...

Cambridge depot got rid of the Ex London Scania OmniCities when the recent service cuts happened at the end of October. They also swapped their former Peterborough 64 plate E200's for their old 10 plate E400's with Bedford depot not long after. It's gonna be interesting to see what moves where...

Those ex Bedford Volvo B9R's were knackered when they were sent to Scotland. Bedford depot worked them hard on the X5 and 99

The Elites are gradually being transferred to East Scotland. 54309 is now the only one left in service at Bedford. The 10 plate ex Cambridge E400's are in use on the 99 and 905 until more E400MMC's can be sourced. The X5 takes priority, So the all available E400 MMC's are on that service and any...

Once all the transfers and repaints into the yellow 'distance' livery happen. Bedford depot's fleet of E400 MMC's for the X5 and 905 will be 10499/803/04/66-81/11279/80. 5 Elite coaches will remain at Bedford for the 99 for the time being although this route is rumoured to be having the coaches...

That's Andrew Gwilt. He comments on virtually every railway related article on the internet with his list of fantasies that he wants to happen

I'm surprised Northampton depot has nothing in any of the new liveries yet. Some of their Tridents and E400's are looking very faded. Could it be that Midlands has to send all vehicles to other divisions to get painted as there's no facility to do it at any Midlands depot?

E200 MMC 37437 (SN16ORG) at Bedford depot is the first one in local livery at Stagecoach East with 37434 (SN16OPZ) due in the paint shop next. Those two were the last in debranded coast hopper livery from the closed Kings Lynn depot

Enviro 400's 19698/700-06 from Bedford

The 905 will be run with Enviro 400 MMC's. Bedford already has 11279/80. 10874-81 are transferring in from Peterborough to join them. 10879 entered service in Bedford today

Corby seems silly to have redoubled the route to the station and still have just one platform. Build a new bridge so Polesworth can once again have two platforms and reinstate a regular service

They need to replaced clapped out Darts at Stagecoach east

Platform 4 is now wired at Bedford. just the fast line in between platforms 3 and 4 to go now then all the wiring here will be complete

Stagecoach East have started painting The Scania Enviro 400's and Volvo B7RLE's used on the Busway from Fenstanton depot. These are all being painted in the green livery for Special services. Repaints are being done at Bedford depot. Bedford's own Enviro 200 36045 is due in the paint shop very...

Bedford depot repainted 16 year old Dart 34428 last year so I wouldn't rule anything out

Stagecoach have 64 plate Volvo B11R's on the X5 between Cambridge and Oxford which runs via Bedford, Milton Keynes, Buckingham and Bicester. The last one of these gets back to Bedford depot well after midnight. They suffer frequent breakdowns and are regularly off the road causing Enviro 400's...

This now being run with Darts and Enviro 200's from Northampton depot

They're worked very hard and are all very tired for their relatively young age

The Kettering ones are indeed for the X4 and the current fleet of 61 plate gold spec Scania Enviro 400's will be heading up to Merseyside

Cambridge have had 6 open top Volvo B5TL's delivered and in service replacing the ex London tridents 13808 BV18YBA 13809 BV18YBB 13810 BV18YBC 13811 BV18YBD 13812 BV18YBE 13813 BV18YBF There were rumours about new coaches for Bedford for the X5 but they are not true