Birmingham Coach Station, by Katchooo
Mark a.k.a @cybrum, popped by the coach station quite early in the evening to keep me company before getting a Chinese takeaway on his way home.
Arrivals, by Katchooo
Mark lives in Smethwick and is a regular user of National Express its recent acquisition Travel West Midlands. Being in the station compelled him to start telling me some of his bus-related observations:
- There is a National Express coach stop in Bearwood, at one of the bus stops opposite the Kings Head pub on Hagley Road. Only coaches going to Wolverhampton seem to go past the Bearwood coach stop.
- Mark has never seen anyone get on or off a coach at Bearwood, and has never seen a coach stop there. “And I’ve spent quite a lot of time at these bus stops.”
- Mark would like to know what will happen to the old temporary York Road coach station. Mark quite liked the York Road site, despite the narrow roads making it tricky for coaches to get in and out. Mark thought it would make a good Stagecoach station, to give Birmingham two coach stations next to each other, just like London’s Greenline and Victoria Road Station.
Departures, by Katchooo
Then Mark announced he had a story about a Megabus journey to tell me. About how since then he’s been more of a fan of National Express, though definitely not one of Travel West Midlands, who he describes using a very rude word indeed. You have been warned. Here it is:
