NXWM Changes 24/07/16

[Westy]

Theyve taken the changes for the 301 & 302 (31 & 32) off the site, plus taken off the file for the Darlaston services, now saying its to follow.

Now what are they playing at?

[Other Walsall Tony]

So the only service to Willenhall evenings or Sundays will be the 529....

[Alex]

So the only service to Willenhall evenings or Sundays will be the 529....

25 and possibly 28E, if it's not cancelled as well. But yeah, as someone who lives in Willenhall, it's a p***take, that the 40E & 41 are being removed, given the latter is Centro tendered, and realistically, the 529 is useless for anyone trying to get home from New Invention after 6, and it's a bloody long walk!

[Other Walsall Tony]

25 and possibly 28E, if it's not cancelled as well. But yeah, as someone who lives in Willenhall, it's a p***take, that the 40E & 41 are being removed, given the latter is Centro tendered, and realistically, the 529 is useless for anyone trying to get home from New Invention after 6, and it's a bloody long walk!

25 and 28E cancelled too..  I assume the Centro tendered 41s will no longer run either.

[Alex]

25 and 28E cancelled too..  I assume the Centro tendered 41s will no longer run either.

Umm, think you got the wrong end of that, I was saying those will be the only other services to Willenhall, not that they were being cancelled

[BK63 YWP]

To be honest when I worked in Willenhall the 41 at night only ever seemed to carry very few passengers. There's got to be a point that even the cost of tendered version of the service that is hardly used is a waste of money.

I have heard rumours that the X96 was to split on evenings with NX doing the Wren Nest to Merry Hill (commercially like before) and Igo doing the Merry Hill to Wollaston bit centro tendered?

[Stuharris 6360]

To be honest when I worked in Willenhall the 41 at night only ever seemed to carry very few passengers. There's got to be a point that even the cost of tendered version of the service that is hardly used is a waste of money.

I have heard rumours that the X96 was to split on evenings with NX doing the Wren Nest to Merry Hill (commercially like before) and Igo doing the Merry Hill to Wollaston bit centro tendered?

Presume that will come with the Dudley Bus Review which should be taking place sometime in the next few years!

[BK63 YWP]

@Stuharris 6360 perhaps it's getting a consultation like walsall/Wolverhampton got after the summer maybe Christmas... seems like Dudley review disappeared...

[Stuharris 6360]

It has disappeared, I thought the changes that were taking place on the 24/7/16 may have been it, but the only changes around Stourbridge are the usual summer holiday timetable amendments.

Would assume that a number of services are running on tender extensions as some were due to run out late last year.

[SMK]

I wonder what the folk in Portobello will think of the 40 being withdrawn.
It was they who got it rerouted to serve the estate, after getting in touch with the local MP.
Looks like I'll have to go back to using the dilly-dallying 82 to get back home from Wolves........ yay. -_-

[the trainbasher]

Apparently the dudley tenders are meant to be October (likelihood of it actually happening = 0)

[Stuharris 6360]

Apparently the dudley tenders are meant to be October (likelihood of it actually happening = 0)

@the trainbasher, which year?

[the trainbasher]

@the trainbasher, which year?

2016 apparently

*spots Pigs flying (not a police helicopter either)*

[Trident 4609]

I wonder what the folk in Portobello will think of the 40 being withdrawn.
It was they who got it rerouted to serve the estate, after getting in touch with the local MP.
Looks like I'll have to go back to using the dilly-dallying 82 to get back home from Wolves........ yay. -_-

As they say, use it or lose it. Everytime i've passed through there, it seems to havs light loadings (the W'ton-Willenhall section seems to carry very little passengers). Portobello is a short walk to the Willenhall Rd so it's not as if they're stranded (plus they get shiny new buses if they walk down to the main road lol)

[BK63 YWP]

The X10 extension to Pensnett will any one use it as I have seen a 141 pass at Russell hall hospital completely empty. How many Platinum's would it need to run the X10? I tried to work it out and got 8 PVR