West Bromwich Garage

[Ash]

Wednesbury is closer to Walsall, what do you mean by this point you mean certain services through wednesbury should go to WA from WB

[Nathan4775]

Wednesbury is closer to Walsall, what do you mean by this point you mean certain services through wednesbury should go to WA from WB

I think that certain WB routes to operate from a garage close to there terminus
e.g. 405/406 - WA
451 - PB
444 - PB

etc

[Stu]

Wednesbury is closer to Walsall, what do you mean by this point you mean certain services through wednesbury should go to WA from WB

I think that certain WB routes to operate from a garage close to there terminus
e.g. 405/406 - WA
451 - PB
444 - PB

etc

All those routes terminate at West Bromwich bus station, which is literally two minutes from the depot.  ::)

And the 444 (West Bromwich to Bearwood) goes nowhere near Perry Barr!  ???

[ilovetea4370]

Imagine all the dead mileage if the 451 transferred to PB...

[D10]

Imagine all the dead mileage if the 451 transferred to PB...

Presumably this is why the 451 was transferred back to WB garage, cos I can certainly remember the 451 being run from PB back in the early 1990's.

[Nathan4775]

Wednesbury is closer to Walsall, what do you mean by this point you mean certain services through wednesbury should go to WA from WB

I think that certain WB routes to operate from a garage close to there terminus
e.g. 405/406 - WA
451 - PB
444 - PB

etc

All those routes terminate at West Bromwich bus station, which is literally two minutes from the depot.  ::)

And the 444 (West Bromwich to Bearwood) goes nowhere near Perry Barr!  ???

Isnt Bearwood close to PB, straight down Hagley Road - Birmingham - PB garage

Imagine all the dead mileage if the 451 transferred to PB...

What you mean 'Dead Mileage'

[D10]

Dead Mileage is any mileage that is run when the vehicle is not in passenger service. I.e. running to the garage to take up it's first trip, and then the run back to the gaarge afterwards.

[Nathan4775]

Dead Mileage is any mileage that is run when the vehicle is not in passenger service. I.e. running to the garage to take up it's first trip, and then the run back to the gaarge afterwards.

ohhh 8),

So it would depend on were the 451 starts then

[winston]

As has already been mentioned, PE, PB & possibly BC? are all full to capacity or near capacity, therefore nothing could be transferred in without a route being transferred out to another garage. PE could possibly be extended to increase capacity, but that remains to be seen whether it will actually ever happen.

Wednesbury is closer to Walsall, what do you mean by this point you mean certain services through wednesbury should go to WA from WB

I think that certain WB routes to operate from a garage close to there terminus
e.g. 405/406 - WA
451 - PB
444 - PB

etc

[Ash]

I know becuase of the walsall network review that the 404 transerred to Walsall with the 405/6 in the opposite direction, but most of the 404 services finish in West Brom or start at West Brom with some even finishing in Blackheath so there must be quite a bit of dead mileage here even though i know there some extra services in the evening that finish at Walsall since the transfer.

With other garages at full capacity i cant see West Bromwich garage closing without a replacement garage near the current location.

[MW]

AG use their initiative and have a lot of vehicles terminating in Solihull to run as 37Es back to Acocks Green.

[BU07 LGO]

Why would a residential hopme be built next to a garage and expect no noise?

[Ash]

From a fleetlist I have in 2000 only 31 of the same vehicles from the West Bromwich garage remain in the fleet to this day from the 150 that was in the fleet at that time.

These being buses : 590,670,674,675,680,681,682,1523,1526-9,1532/4/8/9,1577,1581/2/5-7/9,1592,1613,1617-9,1622/4/6 and soon all these buses could be replaced

And by looking at other garages fleetlists in 2000 WB seems to be the garage with the same vechicles remaining now were in 2012

[Nathan4775]

Not all garages can do that as some routes dont go by the garage, its ok if the routes stops 2 mins away from the garage (37)

[Tony]

Not quite sure what that has to do with the question