Former/deceased garages

[Ronnoc]

The main building itself is still there, it's rarely used but there were plans to convert it to a market.

[MW]

Oh yeah, it's a car park now. More of an overflow car park really.

[iansdavies]

ill always remember when coventry road garage closed down in 1986 the 97 route was relocated to lea hall and a lot of drivers also moved there was this one driver who drove at coventry road for years an irish driver who was the spitting image of gilbert o sullivan he sometimes drove the 161/171 58 and 60 but mostly 97 in 1988 they moved the 15 17 to lea hall and i caught his bus which had broke down on bosworth drive he was chatting about they asked him to do some OT in the 17 because only 8 drivers had turned up for duty out of a total of 28 i dont think his wife was to pleased god bless him the bus that broke down was 6775 great memories any idea who this driver was 

[The Real 4778]

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[Squiz1971]

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OH I see & there's me thinking that this was a new type of Morse code roflmso @ The Real 4778

[Other Walsall Tony]

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[Solo1]

Up the road from where miller st depot is they are building something it's over the road from the coaches are is it any think for de Courcey 

[Tony]

Up the road from where miller st depot is they are building something it's over the road from the coaches are is it any think for de Courcey

If you have a look at the signs outside it tells you it is for a self storage company. A bus company wouldn't need a building that tall unless they were running the Night Bus to Hogwarts

[iansdavies]

oh sorry i hadnt realised you werent from birmingham chaps maybe if you stay on this site long enough    you may learn something, in hindsight no i dont think so , by the way it could have been the 15

[The Real 4778]

Every day's a school day!

[karl724223]

On this day in 1993 hartshill shut 🙁

[winston]

On this day in 1993 hartshill shut 🙁

That was a decent garage, buses were always well turned out.

Metrowest took over a number of Hartshill routes the following day

[Westy]

That was a decent garage, buses were always well turned out.

Metrowest took over a number of Hartshill routes the following day

Was Metrowest owned by WMT by that point?

How come all the Hartshill routes didnt transfer to Metrowest & how come we got those long routes eg 311/312/313 Walsall to Stourbridge instead of Metrowest getting the 246 on its own?

(The same could be said of West Brom operating the 247 & 248 as well, operating a fair bit of dead mileage to its nearest point!)

[karl724223]

Was Metrowest owned by WMT by that point?

How come all the Hartshill routes didnt transfer to Metrowest & how come we got those long routes eg 311/312/313 Walsall to Stourbridge instead of Metrowest getting the 246 on its own?

(The same could be said of West Brom operating the 247 & 248 as well, operating a fair bit of dead mileage to its nearest point!)

245/6 was transferred to Walsall garage and later the 311/2/3 was created
Metrowest had work
West brom quinton and wolves also had hartshill work
Some good long established routes were lost with Black Country garage closures

[winston]

Was Metrowest owned by WMT by that point?

How come all the Hartshill routes didnt transfer to Metrowest & how come we got those long routes eg 311/312/313 Walsall to Stourbridge instead of Metrowest getting the 246 on its own?

(The same could be said of West Brom operating the 247 & 248 as well, operating a fair bit of dead mileage to its nearest point!)

Yes Black Country Buses Ltd (ta Metrowest) was owned by WMT by then. A number of the routes that were taken over from WMT Harstshill on closure, were operated out of Metrowest's Delph Garage.

The more marginal Brierley Hill & Merry Hill routes went to Metrowest, along with most of Dudley services, it was operated as a low cost unit, whilst the core / high frequency routes stayed under WMT and were operated out of West Bromwich & Quinton garages