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As well as closing Stafford garage, cutting back at the fringes seems to be the order of the day at Arriva Midlands North, some of it seemingly due to competition. During July the Telford - Wolverhampton direct service (8) was cut back to run Telford - Shifnal only. Banga Buses of Wolverhampton had ...

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18:37 Sunday 28th August 2016

47518 should be the unbranded gold solo, its allocated to Stratford too since the service changes, 47653 should be repainted.

Thanks for the correction. 47518 is indeed the unbranded gold Solo, and 47653 is in Stagecoach livery.

Yes, JJD 565D is still owned by Stagecoach (fleet number 12565) and I think is still normally based at Stratford.

Details of its history are on this site here - http://midlandred.net/vehicles/fleetlis ... 5Ejjd565d$
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If the Solo you saw was still in Goldline livery but without fleetnames or branding, it was probably 47653. The 4765x batch were at Leamington until they were replaced on service G1 by new 'Gold' Solo SRs last year. They were then moved to Stratford, but only 47653 is still formally allocated there....

You are correct - the Wendaway MAP scheme for Kidderminster was launched in 1977. The two main services along this road were the K2 Kidderminster - Bewdley - Hales Park or Bark Hill, and the X92 Birmingham - Kidderminster - Bewdley - Ludlow (extended to Hereford in 1979 at the time of the Hotspur MA...

I think that the X18 is scheduled to be entirely double deck - Stratford depot received three Scania/Enviro 400s from Northampton when it was extended and doubled to half hourly in June - but I have heard that other vehicles can sometimes appear. The Sunday service (numbered 18 - it follows a differ...

Great to see you back! Well done Adam.