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Wyrleybart

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Not seen a "hydroliner" for months now and more maroon vehicles seem to be running the 51 and the 997. Presume it is still the Tyseley fuelling problem, but I heard NXWM were installing a fueller at Walsall's Birchills depot. Have also heard that NXWM are passing some of the depots to "the hub" whatever that is.
 
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Barely a mention of it on the NX website, but the Short Hop, Birmingham City Hop and Birmingham Uni Hop fares currently £1.50 are being withdrawn and won't be available from Monday 8 April.
 
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dvboy said:
Barely a mention of it on the NX website, but the Short Hop, Birmingham City Hop and Birmingham Uni Hop fares currently £1.50 are being withdrawn and won't be available from Monday 8 April.
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I have never used the City Hop fare myself but I would imagine that it was major benefit for people travelling within the Middle Ring Road say from Five Ways into the city centre.
 
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Wyrleybart said:
Not seen a "hydroliner" for months now and more maroon vehicles seem to be running the 51 and the 997. Presume it is still the Tyseley fuelling problem, but I heard NXWM were installing a fueller at Walsall's Birchills depot. Have also heard that NXWM are passing some of the depots to "the hub" whatever that is.
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Hydroliners have been off the road since end of January I think. There are problems with the fuelling station. Walsall has had a few buses transferred from Wolverhampton
 
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Wyrleybart said:
Not seen a "hydroliner" for months now and more maroon vehicles seem to be running the 51 and the 997. Presume it is still the Tyseley fuelling problem, but I heard NXWM were installing a fueller at Walsall's Birchills depot. Have also heard that NXWM are passing some of the depots to "the hub" whatever that is.
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Not really proving to be a success, are they...
 
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Russel said:
Not really proving to be a success, are they...
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Don't seem to be, but is it the bus itself, or they way they are intended to be fuelled ?
I was under the impression the fuelling at Tyseley was to be a temporsary thing until Walsall's Birchills depot received it's permanent hydrogen fuelling plant. There doesn't seem a point in buying twenty buses at probably three hundred thousand quid a pop, and not the installation to make them work.
 
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Wyrleybart said:
Don't seem to be, but is it the bus itself, or they way they are intended to be fuelled ?
I was under the impression the fuelling at Tyseley was to be a temporsary thing until Walsall's Birchills depot received it's permanent hydrogen fuelling plant. There doesn't seem a point in buying twenty buses at probably three hundred thousand quid a pop, and not the installation to make them work.
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£300,000? That'll barely buy you a new diesel double deck nowadays. These were closer to £0.5m each - I seem to recall there was a Freedom of Information answer in respect of the TfL ones that gave a price of £505,000 per bus, but I can't find it at the moment.
 
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Wyrleybart said:
Don't seem to be, but is it the bus itself, or they way they are intended to be fuelled ?
I was under the impression the fuelling at Tyseley was to be a temporsary thing until Walsall's Birchills depot received it's permanent hydrogen fuelling plant. There doesn't seem a point in buying twenty buses at probably three hundred thousand quid a pop, and not the installation to make them work.
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I believe I heard the same, but NXWM's definition of temporary needs questioning, these buses were introduced into service around 2 years ago now, wasn't they?
 
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The ones in Liverpool have never left the depot, apart from a few test runs. What a waste.
 
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