Route numbers

[Tony]

Goodpoints, I know that I went into the Pavillions Travel Shop for a copy of the Wolverhampton 2 timetable, then when I got home realised it was for the Walsall 2! So I do wonder how the general public manage when they obvioulsy have less understanding of the route networks than enthusiasts.
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Walsall 2? The pavilions don't normally stock Arriva Timetables!

[D10]

Goodpoints, I know that I went into the Pavillions Travel Shop for a copy of the Wolverhampton 2 timetable, then when I got home realised it was for the Walsall 2! So I do wonder how the general public manage when they obvioulsy have less understanding of the route networks than enthusiasts.

Walsall 2? The pavilions don't normally stock Arriva Timetables!
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You are right, but as the Arriva Walsall 2 is on the Network West Midlands timetable which covers the 1/2/x51, and the latter is a NX Birmingham route the timetable was available in the Pavillions Shop

[4504]

I thought it was left as the 529 because they couldn't find a number to replace it

Personally, I preferred the old system of 1-199 for Birmingham and its surrounds, 200-299 for Dudley, 300-399 for Walsall, 400-499 for West Bromwich and 500-599 for Wolverhampton.  The only mistake they made was not to renumber Coventry services to 600-699 when they took them over in 1974.  The problem with the new system comes when you are picking up timetables at an enquiry office and have to make sure that you pick up the right number 1 timetable, for example.  It doesn't help that the Walsall number 35 goes to Druids Heath - the same name as an old destination of the Birmingham 35.

Just one question about the new numbers.  National Express in Wolverhampton renumbered every one of their 500+ route numbers, except one.  There were rumours before the Wolverhampton Review was made public that the 529 was to become route number 52.  So why was the 529 not renumbered like all the others?

Goodpoints, I know that I went into the Pavillions Travel Shop for a copy of the Wolverhampton 2 timetable, then when I got home realised it was for the Walsall 2! So I do wonder how the general public manage when they obvioulsy have less understanding of the route networks than enthusiasts.

Regarding the 529, it seems as though some of the trunk inter-town routes were left as 3 digit numbers (529/126/256), so perhaps they wanted to show the difference between these routes and the more local routes (2/10/32 etc) and the non-direct inter-town services (40/69/81 etc)?

[Nathan4775]

I thought it was left as the 529 because they couldn't find a number to replace it

Personally, I preferred the old system of 1-199 for Birmingham and its surrounds, 200-299 for Dudley, 300-399 for Walsall, 400-499 for West Bromwich and 500-599 for Wolverhampton.  The only mistake they made was not to renumber Coventry services to 600-699 when they took them over in 1974.  The problem with the new system comes when you are picking up timetables at an enquiry office and have to make sure that you pick up the right number 1 timetable, for example.  It doesn't help that the Walsall number 35 goes to Druids Heath - the same name as an old destination of the Birmingham 35.

Just one question about the new numbers.  National Express in Wolverhampton renumbered every one of their 500+ route numbers, except one.  There were rumours before the Wolverhampton Review was made public that the 529 was to become route number 52.  So why was the 529 not renumbered like all the others?

Goodpoints, I know that I went into the Pavillions Travel Shop for a copy of the Wolverhampton 2 timetable, then when I got home realised it was for the Walsall 2! So I do wonder how the general public manage when they obvioulsy have less understanding of the route networks than enthusiasts.

Regarding the 529, it seems as though some of the trunk inter-town routes were left as 3 digit numbers (529/126/256), so perhaps they wanted to show the difference between these routes and the more local routes (2/10/32 etc) and the non-direct inter-town services (40/69/81 etc)?

52 would have suited that route fine, that the only Walsall Service that didnt get re-numbered along side 335/336 which I thought were changing to 35/36