Learning Routes

[domino.99]

Hi Guys

Just wandering again how do you guys learn routes or do you not learn them and just follow them? I got on the 246 for the first time yesterday annoyingly there was diversion on it but i leart the whole route apart from how to get into stourbridge  bus station but do you learn routes easily or hard?

[Sh4318]

Hi Guys

Just wandering again how do you guys learn routes or do you not learn them and just follow them? I got on the 246 for the first time yesterday annoyingly there was diversion on it but i leart the whole route apart from how to get into stourbridge  bus station but do you learn routes easily or hard?

The 246 is pretty much a straight line for the most part. The only way to really learn routes is to use them

[Kevin]

Just from travelling on them really, usually if im on a new route I follow where im going on Network West Midlands maps. Generally over time I've come to remember most routes

[Ashley 4569]

When i first became adventurous id stick to straight routes i already knew but gradually id just pick ones i knew to be decent enough and initially it was guess work where to get off, where you can connect with another route but now i think im alright at it. Which routes would you like to learn out of interest?

[domino.99]

When i first became adventurous id stick to straight routes i already knew but gradually id just pick ones i knew to be decent enough and initially it was guess work where to get off, where you can connect with another route but now i think im alright at it. Which routes would you like to learn out of interest?

I like to learn any route in all honesty aslong as its in a area i know

[Westy]

Last Saturday,instead of catching a 74 from Dudley to Great Bridge, I caught the 43 instead.

It made a change.

One of the days, instead of catching an X51 from Walsall to Brum, I might catch a 934 or a 997.

[Lukeee]

Last Saturday,instead of catching a 74 from Dudley to Great Bridge, I caught the 43 instead.

It made a change.

One of the days, instead of catching an X51 from Walsall to Brum, I might catch a 934 or a 997.

You could be real adventuress and catch the regular 51  ;)

[Ashley 4569]

...Or even better a 935 :)

[wilmotm (Matt Wilmot)]

Sorry to slightly hijack this thread but is there really the need for all these Walsall to Birmingham services? There's 4 at the very least! I have personally only used the X51

[Ashley 4569]

They all follow different routes as such, for example the 997 is the only NXWM service that connects aldridge with birmingham and is the only service i believe that runs between rushall and barr beacon, the others i think make sure every street in pheasey has a bus service so it seems

[Trident 4609]

When i first became adventurous id stick to straight routes i already knew but gradually id just pick ones i knew to be decent enough and initially it was guess work where to get off, where you can connect with another route but now i think im alright at it. Which routes would you like to learn out of interest?

I like to learn any route in all honesty aslong as its in a area i know

I started off with local Wolverhampton Routes a few years ago and i have gradually rode on new routes. Now me and Matt go on the bus now we go to places where maybe i'm not as familiar with like Birmingham.

[Ex pensnett driver]

I drove round with route description in my car and now know all routes in PE

[Westy]

Last Saturday,instead of catching a 74 from Dudley to Great Bridge, I caught the 43 instead.

It made a change.

One of the days, instead of catching an X51 from Walsall to Brum, I might catch a 934 or a 997.

You could be real adventuress and catch the regular 51  ;)

I try to avoid the 51 where possible.

I have done the 935 & the 'old' 997 though.

[JackC]

the 997 is the only NXWM service that connects aldridge with birmingham

Forgetting the 936?

[JB93]

Go on the NXWM website and there's route maps using Google Maps, just follow it along on StreetView if you don't have the time to go out and get the actual bus. It's what I used to do, and I still do it to figure out which routes to go out and try.