What's the furthest you know that a bus operates a school service?
WA do CG4 Handsacre to Cannock, and the SFA1 & SFA2 Wilnecote to St. Francis of Assisi. These are quite a jaunt in dead mileage and then the route itself.
Historically, Midland Choice did 830 Walsall - Aldridge - KEGS Handsworth from their Watery Lane garage (hell of a jaunt back in 1993!)
Quote from: Wumpty on September 22, 2021, 03:42:13 PM
What's the furthest you know that a bus operates a school service?
WA do CG4 Handsacre to Cannock, and the SFA1 & SFA2 Wilnecote to St. Francis of Assisi. These are quite a jaunt in dead mileage and then the route itself.
Historically, Midland Choice did 830 Walsall - Aldridge - KEGS Handsworth from their Watery Lane garage (hell of a jaunt back in 1993!)
The Green Bus do Alcester schools
Also factor in the fact that a lot of school runs [ and stage services ] very rarely go direct from start to finish , The Green Bus service 885 for example looks very squiggly on the Bustime route map.
Stagecoach Warwickshire run an 18A which starts at Coleshill School, and runs through to St. Thomas Moore school in Nuneaton. As Stagecoach no longer runs any service through to Coleshill, the bus runs dead there in the morning, and runs dead back from there in the evening (I've passed this coming back many times on my way home from work).
Possibly the most remote school service that Stagecoach Midlands (Warwickshire) run is the 302, Maypole to Alcester Schools, which I believe is operated by Leamington depot.
In the Shire Counties there are many long school services and contracts which involve much dead mileage for bus and coach operators. Alcester schools have a wide catchment area, covering from the edge of Birmingham in the north to Gaydon and Tysoe in the south.
Private schools can have even wider catchment areas - Ridleys Coaches operate services to Warwick from villages in Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire - https://www.ridleyscoaches.co.uk/timetables (https://www.ridleyscoaches.co.uk/timetables).
It may be worth saying that Johnsons run a couple of University of Birmingham campus shuttles - https://www.johnsonscoaches.co.uk/contract-bus-services/ (https://www.johnsonscoaches.co.uk/contract-bus-services/).