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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 .
This is a list of the past, present, planned or abandoned guided bus systems or bus rapid transit schemes in the United Kingdom, including segregated busways.Not included are bus priority schemes, bus lanes or local authority bus company quality contracts that do not involve guidance, significant segregation from the public highway or other bus rapid transit features.
The station was known, during the period 1924–1969, as Nuneaton Trent Valley, to distinguish it from the now closed Nuneaton Abbey Street station; many local people still refer to it as Trent Valley. The station lies on the north-eastern edge of Nuneaton town centre, just outside the ring road.
The nearest fully operational railway stations are Tamworth and Atherstone, both within 5 miles (8.0 km). The Coventry Canal also runs through Polesworth. Polesworth is served hourly by Arriva Midlands North-operated bus route 65 between Tamworth and Nuneaton.
Following an investment in 17 Enviro400 MMCs featuring revised Unibus branding in late 2019, replacing the Enviro400s on the service, [31] [32] Stagecoach Midlands launched the U12 service on 2 January 2020, which runs between Coventry and the University of Warwick at a frequency of up to every 15 minutes, as well as launching a term-long bus ...
1912 map showing the railways around Nuneaton, and the location of the station. Until 2 June 1924 it was known as Nuneaton Midland. It was renamed as Nuneaton Abbey Street to avoid confusion with Trent Valley station when the Midland Railway and the London and North Western Railway were grouped to create the London, Midland and Scottish Railway ...
The Coventry to Nuneaton Line is a railway line linking Coventry and Nuneaton in the West Midlands of England. The line has a passenger service. It is also used by through freight trains, and freight trains serving facilities on the route. The current passenger stations on the route are Nuneaton, Bermuda Park, Bedworth, Coventry Arena and Coventry.
The London and North Western Railway (LNWR) opened the station, along with the Coventry to Nuneaton Line on 12 September 1850. [citation needed] On 18 January 1965 British Railways (BR) withdrew passenger services from the line and closed Bedworth station, along with all of the other intermediate stations on the line. [1]