Cannock Garage

[Bob]

On the 74? Will it last the day? Pulsar on 2 again his morning

[Bob]

Solo on the 1 & 2 apparently today...oh dear

[Grinder]

Solo 2403 on the 74 today

[Bob]

X781 NWX on 70 /71 sounding rotten and stinking of damp inside. Solo on 74...and a lovey threadbare 04 plate knackered sounding cadet on the 70 back. Wouldn't imagine NX have got anything to worry about on the 154 lol

[Pete50492]

X781 NWX on 70 /71 sounding rotten and stinking of damp inside. Solo on 74...and a lovey threadbare 04 plate knackered sounding cadet on the 70 back. Wouldn't imagine NX have got anything to worry about on the 154 lol

Hardly surprising....wasn't X781NWX a reserve for some time? presumably that meant sitting in a yard somewhere... With regard to the rest of this post and the recent ones it seems to me that Arriva have abandoned any positive corporate image in Cannock and are merely managing decline......No wonder we had the recent NatEx rumours then

[Busman Jamie]

X781nwx was in use with Tamworth not so long ago

[Bob]

B7RLE on the 2e last night

[Kevin]

Saw a couple of buses in stafford today displaying "celebrating 40 years of serving Cannock"
Anyone really sure they're proud of that?

[Bob]

Lmaooooo

[Busman Jamie]

Arriva haven't serves cannock for 40 years.....

[Tony]

Arriva haven't serves cannock for 40 years.....

It's Cannock depot the 40 years refers to, which has been open for 40 years now

[Bob]

I'm surprised they haven't got buses saying RIP Cannock garage lol

[Walsall1955]

It's Cannock depot the 40 years refers to, which has been open for 40 years now

Here's Delta Way shortly before opening (January 1977):
https://www.flickr.com/photos/walsall1955/4738891364/
It replaced old Midland Red garage at Cradley Heath and ex Harper Brothers garage at Heath Hayes.
Midland Red had been operating in Cannock for many decades before 1977.

[Westy]

Fair whack of dead mileage between Cradley & Cannock then?

Or was Cradley only handling southern routes by this point, with Heath Hayes handling northern routes?

Bearing in mind the Dudley area had 4 Midland Red garages, plus one in Wolverhampton,  , Oldbury, Bearwood & Digbeth, was there that many MR routes or was it that the garage space for each depot wasnt very big?

[busfan2847]

Fair whack of dead mileage between Cradley & Cannock then?

Or was Cradley only handling southern routes by this point, with Heath Hayes handling northern routes?

Bearing in mind the Dudley area had 4 Midland Red garages, plus one in Wolverhampton,  , Oldbury, Bearwood & Digbeth, was there that many MR routes or was it that the garage space for each depot wasnt very big?

Cradley Heath reopened with 36 vehicles to takeover the 16 cross boundary routes in Wolverhampton transferred from WMPTE to MROC on 3 Dec 1973. Midland Red would have liked to reopen the Wolverhampton depot but the new tenant refused to leave!

When MROC tookover Harpers of Heath Hayes in September 1974 it included their decrepit depot! MROC quickly looked for a site to replace both of these depots which led to Cannock opening in Feb 1977.

The MROC cross border routes to the south west of the West Midlands, operated from Bearwood, moved to a reopened Bromsgrove depot (17 vehicles) in December 1973.

Bromsgrove, Cradley Heath and Wolverhampton had originally closed following service reductions in 1971.

None of the Midland Red garages in the West Midlands were that large. Maximum allocation was less than 55 at each of them.