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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.
This resulted in the transfer of the bus services to a separate legal entity, West Midlands Travel Ltd (WMT), [13] which took over the bus assets and services of the WMPTE on 26 October 1986. [14] WMT remained in public ownership under the West Midlands Passenger Transport Authority until 1991, when it was sold to its management and employees ...
East Midlands Railway, operates the East Midlands franchise under contract to the Department for Transport (DfT) Greater Anglia (60% shareholding alongside Mitsui & Co.), operates the East Anglia franchise under contract to the DfT; Merseyrail (50% shareholding alongside Serco), operates the concession under contract to Merseytravel
Two Travel West Midlands TransBus ALX400s at Wolverhampton bus station in 2008. In March 1995, the National Express Group purchased West Midlands Travel from employee ownership for £85 million (equivalent to £592,467,000 in 2023), with over 5,000 employee shareholders of WMT receiving windfall gains averaging £30,000 (equivalent to £73,000 ...
The abolition of the West Midlands County Council in 1986 left the county without a single authority covering the whole area, although some council functions continued to be provided jointly, through the West Midlands Joint Committee, the West Midlands Integrated Transport Authority, West Midlands Police (initially under the oversight of the West Midlands Police Authority and currently ...
National Express Coventry first took delivery of battery electric buses in the form of ten Alexander Dennis Enviro400EV double-decker buses built to 'Platinum' specification in August 2020, being delivered alongside a larger order for the West Midlands operation. These ten buses, as well as depot infrastructure to support them, were funded with ...
Birmingham has a wide bus network. 84% of public transport use in the West Midlands is by bus. [25] There are approximately 50 operators of registered local bus services in the West Midlands. The largest bus operator in the area is National Express West Midlands, which accounts for over 80% of all journeys
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