Twin door buses.

[Westy]

X55 did go to Cannock at some point.

[I love Walsall buses]

I always thought the X55 was Birmingham to Boney Hay?

No it was X56

[John]

No it was X56

Has it not occurred to you they are on about a long discontinued route, not the recent X56

[Stuharris 6360]

Twin door buses aren't required in the West Midlands, they are ideal for places like London but even there having them on the lesser used routes seems a bit daft to me. It would definitely slow routes down!!

[Bob]

Has it not occurred to you they are on about a long discontinued route, not the recent X56

The X55 was an 80s and 90s route poss into the 2000s but not sure who was running it then. Chase Bus Service had a dedicated branded Tiger coach at one point

[Westy]

Can't access my old timetables at the mo, but pretty sure the Cannock X55 existed at the time 'Chaserider' came into being & was operated by Midland Red.

[busfan2847]

The X55 started out as a joint Harper Brothers/ Walsall Corporation route 944 in 1965, by 1973 this was a joint WMPTE/ Midland Red route. In 1976 it became Midland Red only but as part of the Chaserider alterations in 1980 became the rush hour only X55 (WMPTE provided an off-peak 155 Birmingham to Boney Hay via Aldridge, cut back 198 to operate to Brownhills only). The X55 slowly lost journeys after 1986 until Midland Red North withdrew the service in 1992. Chase buses started running the services MRN had withdrawn until it ran the full peak hour service and continued to run it until the early 2000s. They even operated an off-peak service in the early 1990s.

A remaining tendered service continued being operated by a number of operators until Diamond registered it commercially as the X56. This did not last long (April 2010) and Staffordshire had to put it out to tender again at which point Midland Choice one it. It the passed to Arriva Midlands in Sep 2012. Later NXWM won the tender and rerouted it via Scott Arms. The X56 was withdrawn in July 2016 and replaced with a single journey on the 937 extended from Brownhills to Boney Hay.

[Bob]

Did it run Cannock-Heath Hayes-Burntwood-Boney Hay- Birmingham in MRN days? Jesus what was express about that lol! It wouldve taken forever!