Friday 29 November 2024 (1214) – Only a few days to go before Megabus withdrew most of its services in England and Wales (after service on Wednesday 4 December 2024). However, since the Birmingham to Norwich service M87 now only operated on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, the final day for that would be on Sunday 1 December 2024.

TH18 NDY was seen in busy Friday traffic on the A11 approaching Fiveways, Barton Mills when working the 0910 journey from Birmingham to Norwich (due 1315) via Coventry (1000), Cambridge (1135) and Norwich (University of East Anglia) (1305). The coach returned from Norwich as the 1425 service which, on paper, was shown as working through to Bristol (2035). In reality it would seem the service was split at Birmingham because TH18 NDY often appeared on the same trips on three consecutive days. On all three days of this last weekend it worked the same Birmingham-Norwich/Norwich-Birmingham journeys confirming that the service hadn’t run through to Bristol.

Prospect Coaches of Lye, Stourbridge had operated the service for a couple of years or so before I noted that the vehicles of Thandi Executive Coaches, Smethwick appeared around September 2024. During this time coaches had run to/from Liverpool via Manchester rather than to Bristol.