Service changes 28th April 2019

[mikestone]

Why would the newly electrified ( around a week or so after) train service become a farce?

Because one train an hour comes from London and the other is detached off a Euston-Crewe, and they are hardly renowned for the effectiveness of their setvice recovery as seperate routes.

[Tony]

Wow they are really pushing into Staffordshire now... Will the X51 run late evenings and Sundays??

No, nor will the 3 run to Cannock

[Westy]

You would've thought a hourly Sunday daytime service at least on the X51.

[l.murphy123]

You would've thought a hourly Sunday daytime service at least on the X51.

I'll be really disappointed if it doesn't run on a Sunday...

[BusMan Greg]

National Express are not just replacing the X12 (which was about 9 return journies a day Monday-Saturday. They are giving a full blown Birmingham-Lichfield service a trial. It will be running 15 hours a day with a 20 minute peak frequency and even an hourly Sunday service is being introduced (The X3 currently doesn't run Sundays)

Is anyone anywhere else in the country being this brave?

Do NatEx have a grand plan to kill arriva off

[Tony]

You would've thought a hourly Sunday daytime service at least on the X51.

Brand new routes cost a lot of money with not much return for many months. You might think it's a good idea, but if you had a company spending several hundred thousand pounds a year trying to get fresh customers who may or may not appear you might think differently.

Lichfield is different it is a lot closer to Mere Green than Cannock is to Walsall and you are also giving existing customers around Hill Hook a service to help support it

[monkeyjoe]

There goes new buses for the 94/97 lol

[BusMan Greg]

Brand new routes cost a lot of money with not much return for many months. You might think it's a good idea, but if you had a company spending several hundred thousand pounds a year trying to get fresh customers who may or may not appear you might think differently.

Lichfield is different it is a lot closer to Mere Green than Cannock is to Walsall and you are also giving existing customers around Hill Hook a service to help support it

I wonder of NatEx would ever try on the cannock-wolves corridor again

[Jack]

There goes new buses for the 94/97 lol

Yet the X70 is still mainly E400's...
Can you add the 14 and 72 to list?

[2206]

National Express are not just replacing the X12 (which was about 9 return journies a day Monday-Saturday. They are giving a full blown Birmingham-Lichfield service a trial. It will be running 15 hours a day with a 20 minute peak frequency and even an hourly Sunday service is being introduced (The X3 currently doesn't run Sundays)

Is anyone anywhere else in the country being this brave?

Hoperfully it successful.

Yet the X70 is still mainly E400's...
Can you add the 14 and 72 to list?

And the 55 which also could do with some double decks to cope with loadings at peak times.

[Tony]

There goes new buses for the 94/97 lol

What you on about?
I gave Walsall enough during the last cascade, Perry Barr already have enough due to clever timetabling

[l.murphy123]

Brand new routes cost a lot of money with not much return for many months. You might think it's a good idea, but if you had a company spending several hundred thousand pounds a year trying to get fresh customers who may or may not appear you might think differently.

How late will it run then? After the 2E?

[winston]

Brand new routes cost a lot of money with not much return for many months. You might think it's a good idea, but if you had a company spending several hundred thousand pounds a year trying to get fresh customers who may or may not appear you might think differently.

Lichfield is different it is a lot closer to Mere Green than Cannock is to Walsall and you are also giving existing customers around Hill Hook a service to help support it

If the new X51 Cannock extension is well used, I'm sure NX will consider introducing a Sunday daytime service in the future if the demand is there. It's now up to the people of Cannock & surrounding areas to help make it a success.

[Westy]

How late will it run then? After the 2E?

Those last 2 journeys from Cannock to Bloxwich will probably be the last ones of the day!

Any idea how those journeys are doing currently?

[andy41]

National Express are not just replacing the X12 (which was about 9 return journies a day Monday-Saturday. They are giving a full blown Birmingham-Lichfield service a trial. It will be running 15 hours a day with a 20 minute peak frequency and even an hourly Sunday service is being introduced (The X3 currently doesn't run Sundays)

Is anyone anywhere else in the country being this brave?

Words for starting a 20 minute service from Birmingham to Lichfield in 2019 with more trains than ever before, offering quicker journeys on every possible section than a bus could ever be capable of? Let me see....