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3 New Scania coaches have been spotted at the Astons yard recently! - YB12 JON a Scania irizar i6 (Ex Princess Travel & New to Scania as a demonstrator) https://www.flickr.com/photos/79596139@N03/38943877280/in/photolist-22kmK6y-23JgZJF-252xRd7-252xQWL-22kmKbJ-22kmJQo-22kmJYE-252xRk1-22kkxW1-YYe...

I was only told of the six, which will be a direct replacement for the same number of Solos. Thanks Adam. Another question (Going a bit off topic) When the new 31/31A/31U timetable is introduced on the 24th March do you know if there is an increase of vehicles needed to run the services? As I see f...

Does anyone know which vehicles they are going to be replacing? Because 12 buses is ALOT... Unless they are also gaining more work...

DD12 wrote: ↑

19:50 Thursday 8th March 2018

Willr7 !! -- was it on the S51 this afternoon ??

Thanks.

Unfortunately, I would have missed it if it was on the S51 as I was only at college until 13:00 today. But Red Midland has your answer!

Diamond Bus Kidderminster Fleet as of 04/04/2018... 20032: MV54EEO “Echo” 20104: KP02PUV 20500: KP54BYV 20511: KX54NKZ 20532: KX57OWP 20574: KP51SXW 20606: KV51KZH “The Droitwich Flyer” 20610: KP54BYW “The Wessex Flyer” 20717: MG53BLU “The North Western” 20718: MH53BLU “Bluebird” 20734: YM55SVG “Sa...

Considering that the Optare's are now the oldest single decks at Worcester I would hope to see them replaced next... Worcester only have 8 now (not including the Village Link's one) and according to the October Bus graph only 4 are needed (Possibly 5 from March when service 31 is increased from 30/4...

bmmoboy wrote: ↑

19:36 Saturday 3rd February 2018

There are three Wessex double deckers in Kiddy depot at the moment, anyone got any info about them?

Yeah, done some digging online... Two of them are BX62 FOJ (40604) & BX62 FUU (40605) but I’m not sure on the third one and also not sure what they are doing at Kidderminster.

DD12 wrote: ↑

16:59 Saturday 25th November 2017

Have any of the 50s bus stop flags been "put up" yet ?

I noticed this morning that one has been fitted at the bus stop going down the hill into Pershore (from Worcester). I haven’t seen any others though...

Thought I should update this (Only a few changes since this time last year!)

Public Bus Fleet (As of 01/02/18)

KN52 NFO
KN52 NFY
MX05 EKU (?)
SN57 DYM
SN57 DYP
WX08 RZJ
WX58 PFK
MX56 HYB
MX11 JYV
MX11 EGU
MX61 BBV
MX12 CFV
BJ63 AUN
MX15 AFU
SN16 OGV

sockin-1975 wrote: ↑

18:51 Monday 29th January 2018

CN07KZR / S still are with Astons

They do still have CN07 KZS but KZR left a while back (I think its somewhere in Scottland now) Astons also had CN07 KZH/J for some time.