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However, Abus of Bristol, who had also bought a low-floor Spectra, managed to bring their bus out into service a few hours ahead of TWM, making them the first low-floor double-decker operators in the United Kingdom. [53] [54] 20 more Spectras were later delivered to TWM to upgrade West Midlands bus route 50 during 1998. [55]
English: Sutton Park railway station (site), Birmingham Opened in 1879 by the Midland Railway on the line from Castle Bromwich to Walsall, this station closed to passengers in 1965. View north west towards Streetley and Walsall.
Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) is the public body responsible for co-ordinating transport services in the West Midlands metropolitan county in England. [1] It is an executive body of the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA), with bus franchising and highway management powers similar to Transport for London.
The Sutton Park line is a freight-only railway line running from Walsall to Castle Bromwich and Water Orton in the West Midlands, England. It is an important and strategic route, as it enables most freight trains to avoid congestion at Birmingham New Street station. It gets its name as it runs through Sutton Park at Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands.
Birmingham 3 West Midlands Trains 1.030 million 0.329 million 0.397 million Five Ways: 1885 [35] Birmingham 1 West Midlands Trains 2.497 million 1.171 million 1.459 million Four Oaks: 1884 [36] Birmingham 5 West Midlands Trains 0.805 million 0.377 million 0.498 million Gravelly Hill: 1862 [37] Birmingham 2 West Midlands Trains 0.912 million 0. ...
The station is located more than 2 miles (3.2 km) from the centre of town and is generally used as a park and ride station. There are two hourly bus services (90 to Ripley and Mansfield and 33 to Ilkeston and Mansfield) and one half-hourly bus service (3C to Nottingham and Mansfield) operated from outside the station by Trentbarton.
Birmingham Coach Station (formerly Digbeth Coach Station) is a major coach interchange in Digbeth, Birmingham, England offering services to destinations throughout the island of Great Britain and also to Belfast and Dublin. National Express, the largest scheduled coach service provider in Europe, has its national headquarters on the site. [1]
The station opened in 1884, when the London and North Western Railway's line from Birmingham to Sutton Coldfield was extended to Lichfield.More recently, in May 1978 Four Oaks became the northern terminus of the newly inaugurated Cross-City Line from Longbridge via Birmingham New Street, with trains running up to every 10 minutes in each direction.