NX Garage short codes

[Stu]

Have the garages always had these short codes ? probably asking a silly question  :-\

Yes, they have. Back in the day, there used to be a  round sticker in the front windscreen, showing the garage code.

[Trident 4609]

I believe Cleveland Road was CR, the green windscreen garage stickers were anyway, and Coventry Road I have I a couple of old fleet lists as CV

Yeah i remember seeing the green circle saying PL on the Metrobuses

[pb2012]

1, code I was wondering about green sticker with what I think is a lightining strike symbol on it?

[winston]

I think this is a complete list going back to the formation of the PTE:

AG   Summer Road, ACOCKS GREEN
BL   Mount Pleasant, BILSTON
BS   Bilston Street, WOLVERHAMPTON
BY   Victoria Street, BORDESLEY
CC   Lords Drive, WALSALL
CE   Pershore Road, COTTERIDGE
CL   Cleveland Road, WOLVERHAMPTON
CR   Coventry Road, SMALL HEATH
DY   Birmingham Road, DUDLEY
ER   Elliott Road, SELLY OAK
HE   Lonsdale Road, HARBORNE
HL   Dudley Road, HARTSHILL
HN   Harnall Lane, COVENTRY
HY   Whitmore Street, HOCKLEY
LH   Crossfield Road, LEA HALL
LS   Liverpool Street, BIRMINGHAM (now BC)
MH   Second Avenue, PENSNETT (now PE)
MR   Moseley Road, MOSELEY
MS   Miller Street, NEWTOWN
MW   Bean Road, COSELEY
OY   Wolverhampton New Road, OLDBURY
PB   Wellhead Lane, PERRY BARR
PL   Park Lane, WOLVERHAMPTON (now WN)   
QN   Ridgeacre Lane, QUINTON
SE   Foster Street, STOURBRIDGE
SH   Sheepcote Street, BIRMINGHAM
SN   Upper Holland Street, SUTTON COLDFIELD
SO   Harborne Lane, SELLY OAK
SY   Sandy Lane, COVENTRY
WA   Bloxwich Road, BIRCHILLS
WB   Oak Lane, WEST BROMWICH
WH   Washwood Heath Road, WASHWOOD HEATH
WT   Wheatley Street, COVENTRY (now CV)
YB   ALCESTER
YW   Yardley Wood Road, YARDLEY WOOD

Dave,

I seem to remember that Metrowest used CY for Coseley Garage,  another one for the list is DH Delph Garage

[MidlandJoe75]

i didn't know that travel west midlands had a bus garage in  elliot road, selly oak, what year did it open and what year did close
plus what routes did thay run from there

[winston]

i didn't know there was bus garage in elliot road, selly oak, what routes ran from there

It was opened when the Pattersons bus work was taken on, it was an oustation of BC. I think is used to operate the 636, 649 & 650 + others

[Mike K]

i didn't know there was bus garage in elliot road, selly oak, what routes ran from there

It was opened when the Pattersons bus work was taken on, it was an oustation of BC. I think is used to operate the 636, 649 & 650 + others

Yes, it also ran the 44, and I think, didn't it also run the South West Link (SWL) and 921 for a time using refurbished Lynxs?

[D10]

1, code I was wondering about green sticker with what I think is a lightining strike symbol on it?

This sticker showed buses that had radios fitted to them. This was in the days when not all buses had radios installed.

So for example if a driver of a non-radio bus needed to contact Control, he could identify another bus that had a radio and aske the driver of that bus to contact Control.

[winston]

i didn't know there was bus garage in elliot road, selly oak, what routes ran from there

It was opened when the Pattersons bus work was taken on, it was an oustation of BC. I think is used to operate the 636, 649 & 650 + others

Yes, it also ran the 44, and I think, didn't it also run the South West Link (SWL) and 921 for a time using refurbished Lynxs?

Yes I think it did, didn't it have an allocation of around 20?