Central Buses

[winston]

PD1021409/74 - CEN GROUP LIMITED, UNIT 14A, TAMEBRIDGE INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, ALDRIDGE ROAD, PERRY BARR, BIRMINGHAM, B42 2TX
    Registration Accepted by SN
    Starting Point: Tamworth
    Finish Point: Park Hall Academy
    Via: Kingsbury
    Service Number: 16
    Service Type: Normal Stopping/Hail & Ride
    Effective Date: 02-MAR-2015
    Other Details: Monday to Friday

PD1021409/75 - CEN GROUP LIMITED, UNIT 14A, TAMEBRIDGE INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, ALDRIDGE ROAD, PERRY BARR, BIRMINGHAM, B42 2TX
    Registration Accepted by SN
    Starting Point: Fazeley
    Finish Point: Birmingham, Priory Queensway
    Via: M42
    Service Number: X73
    Service Type: Normal Stopping
    Effective Date: 02-MAR-2015
    Other Details: Monday to Friday, one journey in each direction

[Westy]

Do Central do any daytickets? This suddenly seems tempting to have a day off and go play on their routes

Do they have the network?

Theres only the 74 by me & no other points of contact as far as I know.

[the trainbasher]

@Westy they do the 35b to Lichfield (where you can connect to the x55 where connections there to the 16 are available)

[The Fox 4846]

Looks like their building a network in Staffordshire

[Kevin]

Where do you reckon they could take it from here then? Extend the 16 to brum and compete with Arriva?

[Solo1]

here is the versa in service today on X73  https://www.flickr.com/photos/stanjack/16548077738/
with the driver of the 73 from Heartlands  https://www.flickr.com/photos/stanjack/16528413567/

[Dutsey]

I think the express service could work more frequently between Tamworth and Birmingham.

[Solo1]

I think the express service could work more frequently between Tamworth and Birmingham.

it might if extend to Tamworth town centre as I think it only goes to Fazeley

[Cedric]

I have  heard central  are  supposed  to be opening a depot  up in Kidderminster 
For 4 vehicles  to run on the 125 to cut out the dead mileage

[Bob]

I think the express service could work more frequently between Tamworth and Birmingham.

Arriva's X74 flopped miserably..

[woody38]

Thing that it would be good if Central took the route on,  many people from Tamworth still moan about how long the arriva service takes between Tamworth & Brum

[Steveminor]

There's not enough of them to make yet another tamworth brum service viable. Hell there's not even enough to keep the 116 viable without cross subsidising it with the 115

[PM]

There's not enough of them to make yet another tamworth brum service viable. Hell there's not even enough to keep the 116 viable without cross subsidising it with the 115

Others have disagreed strongly with me on here in the past about this but I've never been on a busy 110.

Having said that, I think a service similar to how Diamond run the 108 could work ie a few fast journeys aimed at commuters, after all, Sapphire is meant to be a brand used on services with a higher than average percentage of commuters travelling to and from work on longer distance services.

[Bob]

There's not enough of them to make yet another tamworth brum service viable. Hell there's not even enough to keep the 116 viable without cross subsidising it with the 115

Others have disagreed strongly with me on here in the past about this but I've never been on a busy 110.

Having said that, I think a service similar to how Diamond run the 108 could work ie a few fast journeys aimed at commuters, after all, Sapphire is meant to be a brand used on services with a higher than average percentage of commuters travelling to and from work on longer distance services.

Ive been on dozens of 110s incl peak ones and have never seen it busy. Been on citaros that have only been a third full

[Kevin]

There's not enough of them to make yet another tamworth brum service viable. Hell there's not even enough to keep the 116 viable without cross subsidising it with the 115

Others have disagreed strongly with me on here in the past about this but I've never been on a busy 110.

Having said that, I think a service similar to how Diamond run the 108 could work ie a few fast journeys aimed at commuters, after all, Sapphire is meant to be a brand used on services with a higher than average percentage of commuters travelling to and from work on longer distance services.

Ive been on dozens of 110s incl peak ones and have never seen it busy. Been on citaros that have only been a third full

Just to throw tuppence in. I've been on an E400 that's been full, so it does happen.