VERY Late running services

[P419 EJW]

1761 and 1893 on WA 69 are in Walsall Bus Station. Don't know which one is late.

[John]

Not NX, but 3 Arriva 110s have just arrived in Tamworth together

And another 2 now. Heard something about 4 way temporary traffic light holding them up

[BU07 LGO]

I was 30 mins down yesterday, was on aldridge road by wickes doing a 936
And the road was blocked by police so got sent back to one stop island, up walsall road, down beeches road, left up aldridge road and strIght up dyas to hawthorn !

[Trident 4609]

I'm told all 79's are stuck in West Brom due to a traffic light staying on red.

[Trident 4194]

867 was running 20 down on 244 earlier, in convoy with 869

[Trident 4194]

900s and 957s not doing great today

[MW]

900s and 957s not doing great today

A lot of stuff isn't today.

At AG the 5/31/37s are running late, well a lot of them. On Stratford Road, behind me (4517 on route 5) was a Gem on the 31, behind that another Gem on 31, and behind that a Gem on the 5.

[the trainbasher]

297s in the afternoon and Saturdays never seem to keep to time...

Me thinks too little running time

[Alex]

Lordswood Rd in Harborne closed due to a car fire. 11's, 24's & 48's queued up on both sides. 4953, 45xx blocked at War Lane stop, towards Bearwood and 4678 (11), 4505 (48), 4231 (48) & 2144 (24) stuck further up road.

Edit

4953 now unstuck, proceeding to Bartley Green at 1439, along with 4506 headed to West Brom, and 4668 continuing on 11C

[John]

On Wednesday I was down to do a trip on the 94 in my break of my duty on the 7. It came half an hour late with no apparent problem on the route, so I was adjusted to run dead all the way to Chelmsley Wood. Oh I love cruising down the Collector Road sitting on the limiter. Only just about managed to get there on time for departure.

Then I was expecting to come off really late on the 7, due to roadworks in Witton (Credit to AVL - quite a few 7s were sent from one end of the route to the other to keep on time - I was adjusted one journey each way), and traffic in the City Centre at rush hour, but to my surprise, Lionel Street was empty at 5.05pm (the last time I done the same duty, it took me nearly 20 minutes to get down it!) and I managed to come off bang on time!

I also got late on the 907 this afternoon. Nearly 30 minutes at one point, on my last trip from City which should have been 5.13pm. The one behind caught me up at the College Road/Kingstanding Road junction by Halfords

[Trident 4194]

6108,6110 and another 9 branded mmc in convoy in Halesowen departing for brum at 14:05
804 and 805 in convoy on 99

[Mike K]

Harborne services all heavily disrupted today. 6 22/23/24s within a couple of minutes of each other along the High Street from city, shortly before that 5512 was adjusted and running as a 23E California, 801 on the 99 was running Not in Service with passengers on board (alighting only), and 5516 was also running NIS towards Bartley Green, presumably also adjusted due to late running.

[Trident 4609]

126's were quite bad this afternoon. I was on 4579 which was in a convoy of three. Between Dudley and Wolverhampton i passed 4 Tridents (Which i know are booked on the 126 today) were ruuning NIS

[Russ Smith]

Bristol Road is fun tonight - a 61, 63, 61E Northfield, 63E Longbridge and three full 98s just passed in convoy. The only other buses I've seen are running outbound not in service or setdown only.

[Mike K]

Bristol Road is fun tonight - a 61, 63, 61E Northfield, 63E Longbridge and three full 98s just passed in convoy. The only other buses I've seen are running outbound not in service or setdown only.

Horrendous problems inbound due presumably due to an incident on either Aston Expressway or M6. Traffic backed up all through tunnels, down Bristol St and quite a way down Bristol Rd. Hagley Rd and Harborne services also affected as problems also affecting Great Charles St, Paradise Circus etc.

Seems to happen all too often these days.