Service Changes 23/04/2017

[Kevin]

They kept changes to the Inner Circle quiet....
Straight up Rocky Lane in Nechells instead of round Bloomsbury and apparently "Some bus stops along the routes will no longer be served to help speed up journeys". Hope it works.
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[2900]

Doesn't the added X and A prefix to services make a mockery of the number simplification process we will now have 120A 4 digits how will people manage I don't know

[karl724223]

Doesn't the added X and A prefix to services make a mockery of the number simplification process we will now have 120A 4 digits how will people manage I don't know

how many will get on a 120A for Dudley

[the trainbasher]

That's why it should have been numbered 119

[Stuharris 6360]

That's why it should have been numbered 119

I often wonder why the West Bromwich to Dudley service was numbered 121?

[2206]

There will be an evening and Sunday service on the 244 to the QE.

[Stu]

I often wonder why the West Bromwich to Dudley service was numbered 121?

Because it shares part of the Dudley to Oakham route with the 120, so numerically it 'fit in'.

[D10]

Because it shares part of the Dudley to Oakham route with the 120, so numerically it 'fit in'.

Yup, and makes sense far more than the old route number of 688.

[Stuharris 6360]

Yup, and makes sense far more than the old route number of 688.

True but now the number 121 would be better used instead of having 120A, was quite surprised they changed it from 688 to 121, surely 21 would have been better.

[CL]

Was just thinking: with the introduction of the 120A, being *supposedly* operated from WB (without trying starting a whirlpool that goes off topic) would there be a set allocation? Or are we expected to be met with a mixed allocation? - which, in WB's case, is quite a varied bag (E200s, Omnilinks, B7TL ALX400, Enviro 400s)

They kept changes to the Inner Circle quiet....
Straight up Rocky Lane in Nechells instead of round Bloomsbury and apparently "Some bus stops along the routes will no longer be served to help speed up journeys". Hope it works.
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I, too, was surprised about this when I came across it. Seems odd to have kept quite about it; that's quite a chunk that's going to be missed out, in my opinion. I haven't been on the 8 down to Nechells in a while. Is that section of the route well used?

[Sh4318]

Was just thinking: with the introduction of the 120A, being *supposedly* operated from WB (without trying starting a whirlpool that goes off topic) would there be a set allocation? Or are we expected to be met with a mixed allocation? - which, in WB's case, is quite a varied bag (E200s, Omnilinks, B7TL ALX400, Enviro 400s)

I'd be surprised if it got anything other than E400s & ALX400s

[Jack6101]

I thought maybe some of pn volvos 20/21## b7rle would come to wb in exchange for some Swb e200 for the 121 at pn ???

[Adam 404]

Was just thinking: with the introduction of the 120A, being *supposedly* operated from WB (without trying starting a whirlpool that goes off topic) would there be a set allocation? Or are we expected to be met with a mixed allocation? - which, in WB's case, is quite a varied bag (E200s, Omnilinks, B7TL ALX400, Enviro 400s)

I believe it will be operated by Scania Omnilinks at West Bromwich garage.

[Kevin]

I, too, was surprised about this when I came across it. Seems odd to have kept quite about it; that's quite a chunk that's going to be missed out, in my opinion. I haven't been on the 8 down to Nechells in a while. Is that section of the route well used?

To be fair I've never really understood why it snakes around like it does, straightening it out shouldn't cause too much issue as the three stops it will miss out are all close to a stop on another road as it is. But that said I am always seeing people waiting for it on Oliver Street

[Dom]

I believe it will be operated by Scania Omnilinks at West Bromwich garage.

It will have no set allocation actually. I've been told by a WB driver. It will get a mix of  E400s, B7TLs and Omnilinks. Similar to the 89 currently.