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West Midlands Bus route 50 operates in Birmingham, England. It operates from Central Birmingham to Druids Heath via Moseley, Kings Heath and Maypole along Alcester Road, it is one of the busiest bus routes in Europe. Route 50 was introduced in 1949 and is currently served by National Express West Midlands and Diamond West Midlands.
This is a route-map template for West Midlands bus route 50, a bus route in the United Kingdom.. For a key to symbols, see {{bus route legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
Following deregulation of the bus industry in 1986, Howle applied to operate route 16 between Hamstead and Birmingham in competition with West Midlands Travel. [1] [better source needed] Other services subsequently operated included service 120 (now service 12) between Dudley and Birmingham and service 50 between Birmingham and Druids Heath ...
The Platinum brand further expanded again in 2018 with the delivery of 72 more Enviro400 MMCs, some of which were delivered to National Express Coventry for the city's first Platinum services, while the West Midlands buses operated on routes connecting Stourbridge, Druids Heath and Chelmsley Wood with central Birmingham. [39] [40]
The Your Bus network of bus services started on 30 November 1987 when route 50Y was introduced by Smiths Coaches. This ran every 20 minutes in competition with West Midlands Travel's route 50 between Druids Heath and Birmingham City Centre via Alcester Road using second-hand Daimler Fleetline double deck buses purchased from Greater Manchester Buses.
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.
Druid's Heath [1] is a hamlet near Aldridge, in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall in the West Midlands county of England. [2] It is located to the northeast of both Aldridge and Walsall . It borders the nearby district of Lichfield in Staffordshire . [ 3 ]
West Midlands Bus route 8, also known as the Birmingham Inner Circle, is a roughly circular bus route in Birmingham, England. [1] It follows the city's middle ring road with some small deviations on parts of the route. The service dates back to the days of Birmingham City Transport.