Midland Red Territory

The former Midland Red's territory was huge and it's most southerly garage was at Banbury in Oxfordshire. Once the company had become a part of the NBC sadly it stopped buying new double-deckers and most of the big buses were either dual-purpose Leyland Leopards or as in this case Nationals like No.504.
Unlike rural Banbury which never had many double-deckers, Stafford Midland Red's most northerly garage on the other hand had little else as most of the local quet country routes were operated by Independents like Austins or fellow BET member PMT. So once the last D9's used on the last long 865 Dudley service had been withdrawn there have been only two brief re-introductions. The first was 2541 a former Trent Daimler Fleetline which came here for use as an OPO vehicle but didn't stay long firstly going off to Ludlow and then on to Hereford.