Walsall Garage

[Bus_user_jay]

Just get the train back from Lichfield City to Sutton Coldfield, then get a bus from there back to Walsall. Doesn't take long and the 6 (which you could catch at Four Oaks) to Walsall is pretty quick, or you could get the 5 to West Bromwich 🤷�♂️

[BlackCountryBusSpotter]

The last Chaserider 36 off Lichfield is 17:30 I believe, which then gets into Walsall and does the 18:30 back to Lichfield and then runs dead from Lichfield back to Cannock to depot.

On Saturday this is at 17:03 it take half an hour to walk from the ground to Lichfield bus Station and with matches these days it probably finish at 5PM.

I was merely looking at options I'll probably stick with the Number 8 as I know where to go for it and the times. Not sure what Data reception would be like anywhere else and I have a backup map of getting to and from Lichfield Bus Station. I don't mind getting back at half severn I just like looking at my options and any hacks. For example to get to College I always used to go 79 and 1/10 in Wolverhampton but if the 79 was being held up say due to a crash on the Bilston Road I could always have got the 82 or 25 to Bilston and then a 34, 39 or 79 back to Darlaston or at worst the 529 to Walsall or Willenhall then the 37 from Willenhall although in Nbus days the 310 or walked it from County Bridge or get the 34, 37 or 39 back from Walsall to Darlaston. If I was to get the number 5 From Sutton I could easily change at Great Barr Scott Arms for a 51 or X51 I know that option. I'll stick with what I know as it seems the Number 8 is fairly reliable and if worse comes to worse I could get the Train or a lift back. And it doesn't seem that Lichfield is a bad place to wait 15 minutes or so for a bus

[Lynx1103]

1846 involved in rtc yesterday 37 route Atlee Road

3305 rear end collision 08.05.24 Perry Barr while on 51.

[BlackCountryBusSpotter]

1846 involved in rtc yesterday 37 route Atlee Road

3305 rear end collision 08.05.24 Perry Barr while on 51.

What time did 1846 have it's RTC I saw it earlier yesterday and are you sure it was an RTC and not ASB 

[Tony]

What time did 1846 have it's RTC I saw it earlier yesterday and are you sure it was an RTC and not ASB

err yes, it was an RTC, and one that will have written the bus off

[BlackCountryBusSpotter]

err yes, it was an RTC, and one that will have written the bus off

Wow must have been coming at some speed the Car not the bus or is it due to the age of 1846 and it not worth being fixed and yes I did see it in the Incidents and Accidents thread so my apologies. It is strange as usually that sort of thing gets reported locally and in the news there was nothing especially considering it must have been serious to write the bus off

[Stu]

It is strange as usually that sort of thing gets reported locally and in the news there was nothing especially considering it must have been serious to write the bus off

If there isn't a 'tweet' then the media don't know about these events.

[BlackCountryBusSpotter]

If there isn't a 'tweet' then the media don't know about these events.

Fair enough, To be fair I didn't see anything about the 37 diverting but it appears 809 went down Western Ave on it's way back to Walsall, 6761 went down there heading to Willenhall before following the 41 route route Churchill Road to Queen Elizabeth Aveune back to Walsall

[Wba_lad]

What time did 1846 have it's RTC I saw it earlier yesterday and are you sure it was an RTC and not ASB

Definitely a RTC, I have a mate who lived right by it and have seen CCTV of it.

[Wba_lad]

Wow must have been coming at some speed the Car not the bus or is it due to the age of 1846 and it not worth being fixed and yes I did see it in the Incidents and Accidents thread so my apologies. It is strange as usually that sort of thing gets reported locally and in the news there was nothing especially considering it must have been serious to write the bus off

I'm not saying anyone was speeding because you really can't judge from CCTV footage only people who will know if the bus was speeding will be national express with their CCTV. The bus was going down the road and the car came out of a side road the bus seemed like it didn't have enough time to react I thought he was going a little too quick but it might of been because everything was stationary and he was only moving vehicle, as I say though I'm not saying he's speeding or not because you can't judge from CCTV.

[BlackCountryBusSpotter]

I'm not saying anyone was speeding because you really can't judge from CCTV footage only people who will know if the bus was speeding will be national express with their CCTV. The bus was going down the road and the car came out of a side road the bus seemed like it didn't have enough time to react I thought he was going a little too quick but it might of been because everything was stationary and he was only moving vehicle, as I say though I'm not saying he's speeding or not because you can't judge from CCTV.

I was more on about the Car speeding not the bus a bus can't really speed down there as it has to give way to Traffic or maneuver through The parked cars. Plus based on the location the bus would have been slowing down ready for the turn onto Poplar Ave

[Tony]

I was more on about the Car speeding not the bus a bus can't really speed down there as it has to give way to Traffic or maneuver through The parked cars. Plus based on the location the bus would have been slowing down ready for the turn onto Poplar Ave

It as nothing to do with the car speeding the car was actually going very slowly 

[BlackCountryBusSpotter]

It as nothing to do with the car speeding the car was actually going very slowly

Oh I didn't want to acuse the Bus Driver of Speeding either I know the car pulled out. There could ne numerous factors, Driver might not have seen the car reacted late as wba lad said, bus driver might have had his/her sight obstructed by something or someone. Could have been distracted by a Passenger. I also didn't want to blame the Car Driver but based on the way i interpreted it flew out the junction obviously it didn't. All that we do is 1846 is a write off further why I gathered speeding was a factor. Although the bus must have hit the car quite hard to be a write off unless it hit a Range Rover or something. 

[Stu]

It as nothing to do with the car speeding the car was actually going very slowly

Oh I didn't want to acuse the Bus Driver of Speeding either I know the car pulled out. There could ne numerous factors, Driver might not have seen the car reacted late as wba lad said, bus driver might have had his/her sight obstructed by something or someone. Could have been distracted by a Passenger. I also didn't want to blame the Car Driver but based on the way i interpreted it flew out the junction obviously it didn't. All that we do is 1846 is a write off further why I gathered speeding was a factor. Although the bus must have hit the car quite hard to be a write off unless it hit a Range Rover or something.

I see far too many 'near-misses' where drivers fail to 'give-way' at junctions or roundabouts.

Most drivers do get away with it (just about) by racing out of a junction, but it only takes a slow-moving car to protrude too far across the give-way lines to cause an accident and collision.

You only have to look at the damage caused to that electric bus when a car pulled out into the bus lane on Small Heath Highway in front of it.

[BlackCountryBusSpotter]

I see far too many 'near-misses' where drivers fail to 'give-way' at junctions or roundabouts.

Most drivers do get away with it (just about) by racing out of a junction, but it only takes a slow-moving car to protrude too far across the give-way lines to cause an accident and collision.

You only have to look at the damage caused to that electric bus when a car pulled out into the bus lane on Small Heath Highway in front of it.

True either way we know that WA have lost an Omnilink