Service Level Increase

[Tony]

YW 6 also upped to every 10 minutes so wander if this means those electric buses will enter service from this date?

No sorry you will have to wait a little longer. YW are just putting all there current fleet of deckers back on the road

[bensweeney14]

Do we have any idea of which operators are increasing services? I know of Arriva going back to around 80-90% service possibly start of June, but what about Diamond, NXC?

[BK63 YWP]

According to the new timetables the PN 57/17A/E are being reintroduced, can @pndriver or @karl724223 comfirm this as it's not on the list of reintroduced services

[2206]

According to the new timetables the PN 57/17A/E are being reintroduced, can @pndriver or @karl724223 comfirm this as it's not on the list of reintroduced services

They got that wrong then "25 - Birmingham to Selly Oak".
The 25 doesn't go to Selly Oak.

[Tony]

25 - Birmingham to Selly Oak
They got that wrong then. The 25 doesn't go to Selly Oak.

What area of Birmingham is the Queen Elizabeth hospital in then?

[2206]

What area of Birmingham is the Queen Elizabeth hospital in then?

I'm not 100% sure, but when people get on the bus and ask if its going to Selly Oak, they usually mean the area by Sainsburys which is further down. They'd be a bit annoyed if you told them they can get the X22 or 25 to Selly Oak and it doesn't actually go there. So its a little inaccurate I think.
Though the NHS website suggests: Address: Mindelsohn Way, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2WB.
https://www.nhs.uk/Services/Hospitals/MapsAndDirections/DefaultView.aspx?id=1655

Its not the only error on the NX site, last time I checked the 28 page is suggesting Heartlands Hospital is in Small Heath.
" 28 Small Heath (Heartlands Hospital) - Bordesley Green - Fox & Goose - Erdington - Great Barr (Scott Arms)"
https://nxbus.co.uk/routes/west-midlands/B028/?timetable[day]=&;

[Tony]

I'm not 100% sure, but when people get on the bus and ask if its going to Selly Oak, they usually mean the area by Sainsburys which is further down. They'd be a bit annoyed if you told them they can get the X22 or 25 to Selly Oak and it doesn't actually go there.
Though the NHS website suggests: Address: Mindelsohn Way, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2WB.
https://www.nhs.uk/Services/Hospitals/MapsAndDirections/DefaultView.aspx?id=1655

Its not the only error on the NX site, last time I checked the 28 page is suggesting Heartlands Hospital is in Small Heath.

What is the difference with someone getting on the 28 asking if it goes to Ward End, and it not going past Ward End Park

[2206]

What is the difference with someone getting on the 28 asking if it goes to Ward End, and it not going past Ward End Park

I knew it wasn't to far away from the Selly Oak Retail Park (2 bus stops I think), but never realised it is considered to be part of Selly Oak before. So my mistake there.

[Stu]

32 - Hall Green to Acocks Green  ;D

[Tony]

I knew it wasn't to far away from the Selly Oak Retail Park (2 bus stops I think), but never realised it is considered to be part of Selly Oak before. So my mistake there.

To be fair it is right in between Edgbaston, Selly oak and Herborne and parts of the site could possibly be in all 3

[WyreForestShuttle]

To be fair it is right in between Edgbaston, Selly oak and Herborne and parts of the site could possibly be in all 3

I was born in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and my birth certificate and passport clearly state EDGBASTON as my place of birth not SELLY OAK. None of the current sites of QEUHB are in Harborne or Selly Oak although Selly Oak had it's own hospital site part of the old Queen Elizabeth Hospital now closed.

[Gareth]

I've only ever seen cities or towns mentioned on passports, never a suburb before!

[the trainbasher]

I've only ever seen cities or towns mentioned on passports, never a suburb before!

I think mine has either Wordsley or Stourbridge. I'll have to check

[WyreForestShuttle]

I've only ever seen cities or towns mentioned on passports, never a suburb before!

For your information when I was born Edgbaston was part of the County of Warwickshire and not a suburb untill it became part of the West Midlands  Metropolitan County in 1974 following boundary changes. If you were born as most births were at the time in Loveday Street Maternity Hospital in the City Centre your passport would read Birmingham.Very few births at the time were at the old Queen Elizabeth Hospital unless major surgery was required at the time of birth. If you were born like me in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital it reads Edgbaston. My partners passport place of birth reads Wordsley not Stourbridge which reflected the Maternity Hospital at the time which was then part of Worcestershire.

[ellspurs]

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital does also list its address as Edgbaston on its website.

On the contrary, I was born in a hospital in the borough of Solihull, but my passport lists my place of birth as Birmingham.

You fill in the town of birth on the passport application form, so if yours does say Edgbaston, it is because you (or whoever applied for your first passport) put Edgbaston there. It isn't magicked onto the form by some random computer thing.