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Might be of interest to some, VELO 2019 takes place May 12th. There will be major route changes to services in Birmingham.

Some routes affected are 14, 55, 94, 96, 97, X12, X70. No buses will serve Chelmsley Wood until after 10.30am.

55, 96, X12 will terminate at Kingshurst
97 will terminate Garretts Green
14 will terminate Lea Village
94 will terminate Arran Way and will start from Lundy View.
X70 will terminate Harvester in Coleshill

X1 will operate to Coventry via Stratford Road, Warwick Road and Dovehouse Lane.

Full details of other changes are on Network West Midlands website.

Now on Network West Midlands website

There was also a 95 that originally ran to Park Hall School via the 590 route. It was then changed to operate to Lanchester Way, Smiths Wood via Water Orion Rd, Green Lane, Windward Way, Arran Way then Auckland Drive.

I remember driving this one day from City and I never carried anyone all the way through. I was stuck behind a 93, 94 and 590.

After that it was withdrawn.

26 was extended to Kingshurst for awhile if anyone remembers that.

Tony I remember the 377 going to C Wood

6919 out on X10.
6920 on 9

6141 also on X70 alongside 6136

6136/6141 both on X70.

The last 94 is indeed at 22.15 not as bustimes.org says 23.45. Wrong information about depending on what website you look at. NX are going to be putting all routes on it's website in due course.

According to bustimes.org and traveline the last 94 will be 23.45 from City Centre to Chelmsley Wood on Christmas Eve. There will be extra buses during the day at selected times. This might be wrong though.

Those were built at the Scarborough factory rather than Falkirk

I shouldve realised that.

Is there any reason why the last lot of Platinums for Coventry are registered in Beverley, Yorkshire while the rest are registered in Scotland.

Only way to merge the routes is to form a circular route. One way via Kingshurst and the other way via Castle Bromwich.

Claribels 94s are also full at rush hour especially from city centre in the evening.

On a different note the X12 can be slower than the 94 sometimes to Castle Bromwich.

Is it just me but has anyone else noticed how shabby the crimson livery looks on some buses now it's started to fade.

6871 seems to be hiding from me.

Excuse my ignorance is the hub a totally different location and what's located there at the moment ?

Hub has TNT, Argos, Iron Mountain and Wholesale market. It's the old IMI site.