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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]
The WMCA's Transport Delivery Committee is a 19-member sub-committee of the Combined Authority Board. It forms part of TfWM's activities, and provides oversight of the operational delivery of transport across the West Midlands and advises the Combined Authority Board, through the Transport Portfolio Holder, on transport policy matters.
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.
Sutton Coldfield: 1862 [64] Birmingham 4 West Midlands Trains 1.720 million 0.645 million 0.805 million Tame Bridge Parkway: 1990 [65] Sandwell 4 West Midlands Trains 0.665 million 0.353 million 0.505 million The Hawthorns: 1931 [66] Sandwell 2 Chiltern Railways West Midlands Metro West Midlands Trains 0.509 million 0.225 million 0.266 million ...
Tracline 65 was a bus route in Birmingham, England which included the first guided busway in the United Kingdom. The existing route 65 bus route was upgraded as part of an experiment to improve bus services, by the West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive .
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.
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.
It connects Sutton Coldfield, which was absorbed into Birmingham in 1974, with the Birmingham city centre. This line provides the only passenger service to Sutton Coldfield; the Sutton Park Line, opened in 1879 and closed to passengers in 1965, is still in use as a freight-only line avoiding central Birmingham.