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With the First providing vehicles for a Cross Country rail replacement service on Sunday 28th February a Bristol based vehicle rubs shoulders with a Worcester based vehicle in Birmingham city centre

First Midland Red pulled out of Redditch after service on Saturday 2nd March 2023 A.JPG Looking very normal Enviro 300 67643 is working Redditch on the last day on Saturday 3rd March 2013 B.JPG First thing on Sunday 3rd March. First Midland Red has left town leaving only the vehicles Diamond had pur...

42890-1.JPG Kidderminster Dart on the X33 to the Alexandra Hospital on Station Way 67241.JPG Lance 67241 on the 67 service to Studley on Station Way 67242.JPG Lance 67242 on the service 67 running towards the town centre turning onto Studley Road 67633-1.JPG Enviro 67633 on Studley Road IMG_5194.JP...

The Stevenson's business model was to look at any commercial service that was withdrawn or any tender that came up for retender and look at what they could register commercially. What this quiet often meant was they took large chucks of routes with the tendering authority left with odd journeys to t...

Unfortunately, as trolley buses run on rubber tyres they would under the same regulations as buses in terms of bus registrations. This means unless some sort of formal partnership is in place then anyone using a diesel bus can register a service against the trolley bus service. The same was the case...

Could it be Midland Red West Holdings al over again? Interestingly the original off the shelf company Ken Mills and his fellow six senior managers formed to purchase Midland Red (West) Ltd in 1986 called Midland Red West Holdings Ltd still exists. It started life with the name INGLEBY (170) LIMITED ...

With regards to the garage sites. In 1986 when Midland Red (West) Ltd was privatised a second new company was formed called Midland Red West Holdings Ltd and that owned everything including the vehicles and garage sites. This Company took on the garages at Hereford, Worcester, Redditch (the two site...

Thanks for the replies With regards to the pictures the top one is the Worcester patch and the Leyland National is 174 NCN974L the only one actually withdrawn from Redditch when the minibuses were introduced at Worcester - 120-3,250/1 moved from Worcester to Redditch in November 1985 to increase the...

During the late 1980’s and early 1990’s Midland Red West had two flat screen Bristol RE buses stored at the rear top end of the Redditch Plymouth Road Bus depot behind the depot building so were not visible from the road. One was definitely UHY634H. Both had been converted into exhibition buses with...

The West Midlands Combined Authority has received funding from DfT to help operators upgrade their buses to Euro VI standard. The lions share of the money will go to NXWM as the largest operator in the area but other operators will benefit. First Midland Red will get funding from this pot to upgrade...