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Just read this from a post on Flickr - Which hints that new deckers are due for Potteries!!!!! "The Potteries will soon benefit from a different pot of government bunce in the form of the Transforming Cities Fund. As part of a collaborative approach, First has guaranteed to buy 15 new double-de...

66316 out on the 45 this morning

Meanwhile. It appears 63359 has joined 63360 at Leicester, with no other StreetLite Max's out in service. I wonder if another B7L has come our way...

66316 has joined 66304 & 66311 at Worcester. She has already had her Leicester fleet-names replaced with Worcester ones!!! :shock: I'm guessing more B7Ls will make the move to WR and act as a temporary solution & allowing our StreetLites to make the move to Leicester, before the remaining Me...

Just noticed that 33404 has gone from the FMR tracker list . . . . . :( :( :( :( :( It could just be that she hasn't been in service for around 2 months... Vehicles have a tendency to disappear off fleet lists if they haven't been traced on the tracker for a while (So I have been told) But, once fi...

53062 in 'Riversider' livery arrives into the City on a 417 from Ledbury, but will sister Solo 53061 eventually receive 'Riversider' livery? I can't imagine them repainting 53061 into 'Riversider'. As pre-Covid the 31 was operated using 2 Solo's all day (Mon - Sat). It could receive the spare bus l...

bmmoboy wrote: ↑

21:00 Thursday 10th December 2020

Always seem to do this at the last minute

Yeah they do don't they!

You would think they would want there money's worth and have the buses vinyled up & ready to hit the road for the 1st of December!

marck wrote: ↑

08:48 Wednesday 9th December 2020

Has anyone seen or heard anything about if any bus will be given Santa bus livery this year?

One has just been done for South Yorkshire & is out in service. Apparently one (or more) is undergoing treatment for Worcester/Midlands (Probably one of our StreetLite Max's)

ANDREW wrote: ↑

13:01 Tuesday 1st December 2020

That sounds a logical sequence of events. I guess as nothing otherwise mentioned that 32646 is in "standard" livery.

It’s still in it’s Leicester city livery, which is odd...

As far as I'm aware, Bramley is one of the depots in Leeds (First West Yorkshire)

No deckers received Severnlink branding, as there were none operated at Worcester/Bromsgrove at the time, all deckers were gone from Severnlink territory towards the end of the 1970's. There were 3 ex-Trent deckers at Hereford with Wandaward branding. 6043 was at Evesham, but I don't recall it runn...