Puzzle Picture
Although this particular paint job had escaped fbb's eagle eye for the unusual, it is a West Midlands Metro T69 tram in Birmingham Corporation bus livery. It stands at the former Snow Hill station terminus. These trams were the original stock to operate in the city ...
... some offered for auction at the end of their Brummy lives. Here is one in the pink and silver livery which came later.
The T69s were replaced by Urbo 3 trams ...
... which have now turned blue. 
Urbo 100s are the next to arrive as the system expands.
In October 2019, an order was signed for 21 new Urbos 100 trams, with the option of a further 29. Eight of these were delivered in 2021, with the remaining 12 to be delivered in 2023.
Unfortunately cracks have been detected in the older Urbos 3 trams resulting in suspension of services, the most recent in March 2022. The newer Urbos 100 vehicles are not affected by these bodywork defects.
Delightful Dalesbus
Just a reminder to readers of the Dalesbus Network. The timetable booklet includes everything thing that ventures in to the Dales Nation Park area with full 7-day timetables included where appropriate.
The Dalesbus tendered network operates on Saturdays and Sundays and includes some glorious rides. The enthusiastic bus rider can plan to magnificent tours, but please check the days of operation carefully.
One of the operators is Reliance Buses of York. Here is the Saturday 74 ...
... which runs via Bolton Abbey ...
... and includes some picturesque views en route.
Route 875 (below in black) is part of a complex Sunday group of services ...
... via Grassington operated by various companies. Reliance uses a double deck bus on its services ...
... to get the very best views.
The Dalesbus network is remarkably extensive and well worth a few rides. Sunny weather makes it even better but sometimes the magnificence of the scenery can be enhanced by looming cloud cover - as long as it does not over-loom and fill the views with murk and rain!
Mr K's Maps - Looking For A Likely Logo
In 2023, where image is more important than actual service quality, a company logo tends to be static for a number of years until someone decides that "refreshment" is needed. But that was not always so.
Eastern Counties buses, like all Ex Tilling group fleets tended to adorn themselves with something like this.
Later it was simplified.
Gold on red was never very distinctive. But the original had numerous variants as in this version on a enamel sign ...
... ot this on a timetable book! Sometimes, designers didn't bother ...
... and came up with something that seemed to fit the content and the fashions of the age.
Then, with the Narional Bus Company, came rigid standardisation ...
... nationally, in logo if not in fleet colour.
Privatisation brought a new logo ...
... sometimes without the underlining. And then came First Bus!
So the question is, what logo should appear on fbb's maps of 1970 city networks for Cambridge, Norwich and Peterborough. They are diagrammatic and thus not representative of anything actually available in 1970, Mr K's date of choice.
One logo that began to appear on printed material in the late 60s was this:-
It also appered on timetable frames.
It wasn't consistent. The shape of the ellipse varied as did the spacing. Sometimes "Omnibus Company Limited ed" was italicised. 
But it did seem to offer something that would be unauthentically authentic.
It was difficult to create but fbb had a go.
It seems to fit - but the final decision rests, of course, with Mr K.
PLEASE NOTE : The item on McGills Eastern Scottish (i.e. West Lothian) cutbacks will appear in a full blog later in the week.
Next Bank Holiday Quiz blog : Monday 10th April
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It is very easy to say "The resurrection is impossible". Of course it is, but, by definition, God must be capable of the impossible; that's why he is God!
Or, "The disciples stole the body". Of course they could have done. A small band on frightened men anxious to avoid arrest themselves could have overpowered a well-trained guard set at the tomb. Indeed the guard was bribed to say just that. But likely?
Or, Jesus was not really dead. So he opened the tomb from inside - "it was a very big stone" - and also overpowered the guard. Yeah, right!
Here is Mary Magdalene at the tomb - the empty tomb, recorded in John's Gospel.
Mary thought, “They have taken my Lord away, and I do not know where they have put him!”
Then she turned around and saw Jesus standing there; but she did not know that it was Jesus. “Woman, why are you crying?” Jesus asked her. “Who is it that you are looking for?”
She thought he was the gardener, so she said to him, “If you took him away, sir, tell me where you have put him, and I will go and get him.”
Jesus said to her, “Mary!”
She turned toward him and said in Hebrew, “Rabboni!” (This means “Teacher.”)
As they say, you couldn't make it up!
Tomorrow we meet a couple who realised that Jesus was a complete failure and were going away utterly dejected to try to overcome their disappointment. Watch out for the flatbread!
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