Bus on Corporation Street, Birmingham
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Bus on Corporation Street, Birmingham
Image: © Richard Vince Taken: Unknown
3211, one of Travel West Midlands' Scania N113/Alexander RHs of 1991, waits in vain for passengers on Corporation Street on what I recall was a Sunday morning. These buses were purchased for service 50 to Druids Heath, which they monopolised until 1999. However, there were more of them than were required for the 50, so they often appeared on other routes operated from Birmingham Central garage, particularly at weekends (I have happy memories of several Saturday trips to Coventry on them on the 900); this one is operating the 62 to Rednal via Bristol Road (coincidentally the first route on which I sampled one). Non standard, and by then in need of refurbishment, the Scanias were withdrawn in 2003, several years ahead of the last of the older (but more numerous) MCW Metrobuses.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.48025
Longitude
-1.896592