Birmingham Central Garage

[Liverpool Street]

I'd say, if Walsall still has every bus in NX fleet, that'll be the best garage to work for for bus nuts. With the sheer variation of vehicles it must be a joy. All the change I get is 41/43/44/46 Tridents. All the same basically.

Bordesley must have the least interesting fleet for drivers with wall to wall Omnilinks

Ghastly.

(I'm surprised BY is still an operating garage to be frank, you don't me to state the reasons why)

[monkeyjoe]

I'd say, if Walsall still has every bus in NX fleet, that'll be the best garage to work for for bus nuts. With the sheer variation of vehicles it must be a joy. All the change I get is 41/43/44/46 Tridents. All the same basically.

Bordesley must have the least interesting fleet for drivers with wall to wall Omnilinks

Ghastly.


What made them change their mind to close Lea Hall instead of Bordesley, which I understood was the original plan?

(I'm surprised BY is still an operating garage to be frank, you don't me to state the reasons why)

[monkeyjoe]

I keep messing up the quote thing. Why did they decided to close Lea Hall instead of Bordesley which i thought was the original plan.

I would say the answer is building costs, but now by the sounds of what people are threading they now have badish capacity issues in Birmingham and a old depot they cannot sell.

[Liverpool Street]

Indeed!

As I see it they left BY open as it is within the confines of Head Office, so that'll mean moving HQ to another depot? Or are the garage totally separate to HQ building? Ive been there once only in my life of 63 years.

So what routes go from BY? 8A/C, 17 ....

[monkeyjoe]

I thought the original plan was to move HQ into the Coach station with Nat Ex Corp and close the whole of Bordesley down. That would have made more sense. Maybe not enough room.

[John]

So what routes go from BY? 8A/C, 17 ....

and 55/A

[Liverpool Street]

So what routes go from BY? 8A/C, 17 ....

and 55/A

And that's it? What's the PVR are these routes, and what garage do these go closest to? I'm guessing BC for the 17/55 but please correct me.

[Liverpool Street]

Nice to see BC's oldest and newest on the same route today!

4139 is the oldest and you can guess the newest haha

[lynx1103]

Bring 4139/4140/4141/4171 back to WA

[Ashley 4569]

4171 never left the garage much when it was at walsall did it?

[Liverpool Street]

Bring 4139/4140/4141/4171 back to WA

You can have them!!

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As has been confirmed on another thread:

4193 & 4199 have gone to do better things at the Crematorium.

[Liverpool Street]

BC short of buses and drivers, again.

[vinh1000]

So what routes go from BY? 8A/C, 17 ....

and 55/A

And that's it? What's the PVR are these routes, and what garage do these go closest to? I'm guessing BC for the 17/55 but please correct me.

I think PVR of both 8A/8C is like 14-16 (seen a running board I believe of 8/16) , 17 is like 8-10 and the 55 idk

[Ex BC driver]

BC short of buses and drivers, again.

Doesn't surprise me. They drafting in any drivers or buses from other garages?

[notepanel]

I thought the original plan was to move HQ into the Coach station with Nat Ex Corp and close the whole of Bordesley down. That would have made more sense. Maybe not enough room.

Several UK Bus Head Office functions are based at the coach station, such as several senior managers & directors, Network Planning, HR & Marketing. Bordesley has the AVL Control Room, Customer Relations, Finance & Payroll (shared) based there.

There has been a rumour circulating for a while that bus may move back to Bordesley, with the Hagley Road functions of coach (Contact Centre) moving into the newly available space at BCS.