Service Changes August 29th 2021.

[2206]

Few of these starting to appear on the VOSA site and some look most strange at present particularly the new 20.
From 80 registration. Looks like 80A is going to be renumbered to 80, as the 80A number has gone.
https://www.vehicle-operator-licensing.service.gov.uk/search/find-registered-local-bus-services/details/580834/

46 Queen Elizabeth Hospital to Northfield via Kings Norton & Hawkesley.
https://www.vehicle-operator-licensing.service.gov.uk/search/find-registered-local-bus-services/details/580825/

And whats happening with the 1A? The number seems to have been removed from the registration?
https://www.vehicle-operator-licensing.service.gov.uk/search/find-registered-local-bus-services/details/580814/

Just noticed 1A is being renumbered 41? Is there some sort of change to the route, otherwise seems strange to renumber for no reason at all?
https://www.vehicle-operator-licensing.service.gov.uk/search/find-registered-local-bus-services/details/580819/

27 also says Maypole to Cofton Hackett?
https://www.vehicle-operator-licensing.service.gov.uk/search/find-registered-local-bus-services/details/580874/

X20 registration changed to 20 QE to Cofton Hackett via Selly Oak, Northfield, Longbridge, Rednal sounds bizzare? Why are they stopping it from going into the City Centre?
Will the X21/X22 be increased in frequency to compensate for loss of journeys from the QE Hospital/University into Town on a major corridor.
https://www.vehicle-operator-licensing.service.gov.uk/search/find-registered-local-bus-services/details/580877/
As 20 is not going to City Centre maybe it won't be run by BC and run by YW instead perhaps, interworked with another QE service such as 46?

77 cancelled.
https://www.vehicle-operator-licensing.service.gov.uk/search/find-registered-local-bus-services/details/580774/

[Lukeeee2018]

Another one I've found, but for Coventry instead - https://www.vehicle-operator-licensing.service.gov.uk/search/find-registered-local-bus-services/details/580872/

[ellspurs]

https://www.vehicle-operator-licensing.service.gov.uk/search/find-registered-local-bus-services/details/580817/

Service 31 listed as cancelled.

https://www.vehicle-operator-licensing.service.gov.uk/search/find-registered-local-bus-services/details/580838/

Hamstead 54 listed as cancelled.

A lot of these just seem to be the end of summer timetable changes, probably a bit more than normal thanks to COVID.

Remember that the information put onto VOSA isn't entirely kept up to date.

[JPC]

Another one I've found, but for Coventry instead - https://www.vehicle-operator-licensing.service.gov.uk/search/find-registered-local-bus-services/details/580872/

There is also a significant variation to Coventry service 1
https://www.vehicle-operator-licensing.service.gov.uk/search/find-registered-local-bus-services/details/580868/
Looks like it is extended at both ends possibly to replace the Stagecoach 703 and to reinstate the old DeCourcey 61 between Chapelfields and Arena Park creating a large circular route numbered 29 and 29A? (the 'Radford' on the registration might be incorrect?)

[Sh4318]

From 80 registration. Looks like 80A is going to be renumbered to 80, as the 80A number has gone.
https://www.vehicle-operator-licensing.service.gov.uk/search/find-registered-local-bus-services/details/580834/

I suspect this will be the 80 & 80A going into the registration for the 80, and Smethwick High Street being converted back to two-way traffic.

Meaning the 80 can serve Blue Gates and Devonshire Road again, and the 89 can revert to serving the entire length of Stoney Lane

46 Queen Elizabeth Hospital to Northfield via Kings Norton & Hawkesley.
https://www.vehicle-operator-licensing.service.gov.uk/search/find-registered-local-bus-services/details/580825/

I can only assume this means the 48 is going to be split in half. I've got to say, I thought this would've happened a lot sooner. Hopefully this will mean an end to the West Bromwich - Harborne short workings

[2206]

I suspect this will be the 80 & 80A going into the registration for the 80

80 & 80A were on the same registration before anyway. So unless the registration is incorrect or means something else, maybe 80 won't come back?
80A might be renumbered 80 I guess, as 80A is no longer on there, like the 1A no longer being on the 1 registration..

[Jack]

80 & 80A were on the same registration before anyway. So unless the registration is incorrect, maybe won't come back?

Hopefully it will be back to how it was before the High Street was made one way... 80 serving Devonshire Road, 80A going back to its original frequency and the 89 reverting to its original route. Withdrawing the 80A would leave one part of Smethwick without a bus service, which from as long as I've known has always had a service and is used....

[BH2004]

Looks like the 89 may be returning and the 8 and 9 extended to Wolverhampton maybe?

https://www.vehicle-operator-licensing.service.gov.uk/search/find-registered-local-bus-services/details/580852/

WN60 withdrawal?

https://www.vehicle-operator-licensing.service.gov.uk/search/find-registered-local-bus-services/details/580783/

[Stu]

It does look like there are going to be some significant route changes from this date, but I think it would be prudent for people to not speculate too much as these DVSA* changes don't always paint the full picture, and there may be other changes that haven't been registered yet.


*VOSA (Vehicle and Operator Services Agency) was dissolved in 2014 and merged with the DSA (Driving Standards Agency) to create the new Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) government department.

There hasn't been any VOSA site for seven years now.  ;D

[Tony]

It does look like there are going to be some significant route changes from this date, but I think it would be prudent for people to not speculate too much as these DVSA* changes don't always paint the full picture, and there may be other changes that haven't been registered yet.


*VOSA (Vehicle and Operator Services Agency) was dissolved in 2014 and merged with the DSA (Driving Standards Agency) to create the new Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) government department.

There hasn't been any VOSA site for seven years now.  ;D

And some of the routes marked as cancelled, TfWM have asked to continue

[andyr]

Would be nice to see WA operate the 89 and have WA buses back in Wolverhampton

[MasterPlan]

I can only assume this means the 48 is going to be split in half. I've got to say, I thought this would've happened a lot sooner. Hopefully this will mean an end to the West Bromwich - Harborne short workings

Yes but currently the 48 terminates in Weoley Castle. So that means the Weoley Castle - Northfield section the 48 currently serves will be dropped again.

[BBS]

1A is going to be 41? and 31 being cancelled? strange should of cancelled the 32 or at least make it replace 31

[MasterPlan]

The '20' baffles me the most. Is there a reliability issue with the X20 or something? As it's not like nobody uses it.

[Westy]

Are people in Pelsall actually missing the through bus to New Cross then?

If this is true, I hope to god it's going to work, for my sister's sake!