Occasional bus services

[the trainbasher]

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[Liverpool Street]

Or look at the bottom of the screen...

I didn't think it was there automatically; more of a personal option I think...

[notepanel]

One journey I've never quite understood (but may just be missing something) is the morning 159C journey between Pelsall (0739) & Castlefort, Streets Corner (0756). This particular bus then goes onto the 727 school service immediately after arrival at Castlefort, but I don't understand the purpose of this particular 159C journey!

Its probably just positioning mileage, notepanel.

Why start it from Pelsall?

Didn't the 159C run to & from the depot at one point?

Currently there are three AM journeys on the '159' corridor:
159C Pelsall (0739) to Castlefort (0756)
159 Walsall Garage (0811) to St Francis of Assisi School (0848)
159C Pelsall (0823) to St Francis of Assisi School (0850)

Both 159C journeys (after the earlier one has operated the 727) then go on to Walsall College duties, so in theory should always be operating using 244, 4127, 4128 or 4776? The 159 journey is operated using either a B6, B10 or OmniLink as it then goes on to operate a solitary 38 journey (Darlaston-Walsall) at 0941.

The return journeys are both at 1540 with just one 159C running to Pelsall & the 159 to the depot.

To answer my own question, the earlier 159C is in fact for Shire Oak School (Streets Corner being where the route terminates, just down the road from Shire Oak). I'm not quite sure how the Shire Oak pupils get back home though without waiting a while for the PM full length 159C!

[tc]

Birmingham:
50A - The Green Bus
X73 - Invincible Coaches

Merry Hill:
282 - Diamond

Stourbridge:
296 - Hansons

Wolverhampton:
88 - Arriva

Walsall:
30 - Walsall Community Transport

Coventry:
41 - WMSNT
47 - WMSNT
83 - WMSNT
84 - WMSNT
232/233 - The A and M Group

Outside the West Midlands the 406F in Surrey must be a good contender for being one of the longest running occassional bus routes with the widest variety of buses used on it throughout its' history including bendi-buses, single and dual door deckers and routemasters. Running every minute as this 1933 poster http://www.eplates.info/P_406F-1933.jpg illustrates on race days.
Some good photos (not mine) are http://www.flickr.com/photos/southdown/9035376874/in/photostream/ & http://www.flickr.com/photos/southdown/9033150481/in/photostream/

[Sh4318]

40X Bearwood - Perry Barr via Handsworth

5 journeys a day (albeit a few of them are shorts)