After a cooked breakfast at The Bole Bridge, my first port of call was Victoria Road where a number of Arriva Midlands services terminate. Imagine my surprise when Diamond Bus Wright StreetLite 32231 SN68 AHT turned up to work the 76B service to Hurley. The operator only seems to run variations of the route during the day and I didn't see any other services operated there by Diamond
Further along the same road was Arriva Midlands North ADL/TransBus Enviro300 3586 CX58 EVP on the 7 to Stonydelph - whilst route branded for 263 which doesn't operate there!
All Arriva Tamworth bus services seem to be run by single-deckers except for the 110 to Birmingham which mainly employs ADL Enviro400s. This is 4415 YX64 VMK about to work the 13:10 departure.
An unexpected arrival was ADL Enviro400EV demonstrator AR74 ZEB which was from Birmingham on the 110. Apparently its on a four week trial
I walked around the corner to see what was lurking in Arriva's Aldgate garage and found ADL Enviro400 4408 YX64 VMC and Scania N230UB OmniCity 3554 YR58 SRV 'Connecting Derby' (apparently!). Hiding behind was VDL SB200 Wright Pulsar 3751 YJ59 BUO

Finally the new kid on the block was Burton based buslink which operates six routes with around 17 vehicles (Bus Times). Pictured is Scania K230UB Wright Solar 73 SN57BKL on Corporation Street destined for Lichfield. In addition to the route number, after a while the screen displayed a countdown to the departure time. As it reached 0 seconds before leaving (surprise, surprise) a passenger arrived to board it!
Roy
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