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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.
In 2021–22, the Cross-City Line's 24 stations (excluding New Street) had combined passenger numbers of 12.4 million, [32] The busiest station on the route besides Birmingham New Street is University, with 3.05 million passenger entries and exits, and the least busy station is Alvechurch with 151,042 passenger entries and exits in 2023/24.
Diamond Bus: 47: Wednesbury National Express West Midlands: 48/48A: Q.E. Hospital/Bearwood National Express West Midlands: 49: Bearwood National Express West Midlands: 54/54A: Worlds End National Express West Midlands: 61: Great Barr Scott Arms Diamond Bus: 64: Wednesbury Diamond Bus: 66: Stone Cross Diamond Bus 74: Birmingham & Dudley
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.
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]
Boldmere is served by Wylde Green and Chester Road railway stations, both on the Cross-City railway line, which runs between Lichfield Trent Valley and Redditch (via Birmingham New Street). Boldmere is served by a number of National Express West Midlands bus services, including routes 5, 66, 77 and 907.
[66] [67] The trolleybuses had been substituted for the Nechells tram route, the first time in the UK that a trolleybus-for-tram conversion had occurred and the first in the world to use double deck covered vehicles. [68] The West Midlands bus route 8, the "Inner Circle", also serves the western part of the area. [69]
The station opened in 1884, when the London and North Western Railway extended their Birmingham to Sutton Coldfield line northward to Lichfield.In May 1978, Blake Street became one of the stations on the Cross-City Line, launched by the West Midlands PTE to link the Lichfield branch with the infrequently served suburban line to Kings Norton and Redditch. [1]