First Midlands 32067 Volvo B7TL/Alexander ALX400 KP51VZR
A rather faint dot-matrix display on this one - 32067 pauses at Bromsgrove on its way back from an exceptional outing into Birmingham along the Salt Road 144. With West Midlands Railway on strike every Saturday of 2019 now, it seems First will be utilising their otherwise surplus double deckers on the trunk 44/144 routes on Saturdays till the end of year. Appearances of the Volvo B7TLs and Dennis Tridents were common until the Salt Road B7RLEs arrived, and with strict emissions rules in the form of an LEZ (albeit delayed) due to come into force in the near future, who knows whether any of the elderly deckers will ever work to Birmingham again. It remains to be seen whether the Tridents will appear on the 144 next weekend, or whether it will be the same allocation of 2 Salt Roads, 2 B7TLs & 4 Streetdecks...
First Midlands 32067 Volvo B7TL/Alexander ALX400 KP51VZR
A rather faint dot-matrix display on this one - 32067 pauses at Bromsgrove on its way back from an exceptional outing into Birmingham along the Salt Road 144. With West Midlands Railway on strike every Saturday of 2019 now, it seems First will be utilising their otherwise surplus double deckers on the trunk 44/144 routes on Saturdays till the end of year. Appearances of the Volvo B7TLs and Dennis Tridents were common until the Salt Road B7RLEs arrived, and with strict emissions rules in the form of an LEZ (albeit delayed) due to come into force in the near future, who knows whether any of the elderly deckers will ever work to Birmingham again. It remains to be seen whether the Tridents will appear on the 144 next weekend, or whether it will be the same allocation of 2 Salt Roads, 2 B7TLs & 4 Streetdecks...