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Service W24: Service History

Introduction

Service W24

As part of the “Worcester Agreement”, on Friday 1st June 1928, Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Company Limited (BMMO—Midland “Red” Motor Services) commenced operation of a new local bus network in Worcester, replacing the electric tramway network that ceased operation on the previous day. The new Worcester bus network was the first of many area networks to be introduced by BMMO carrying a letter prefix on route numbers to denote the area, with Worcester route numbers having a “W”-prefix.

Service W24 was not part of the original network introduced in 1928, but was one of the many new routes introduced at a later date as the network expanded.

See Service W1 for a list of routes operated as part of the 1928 Worcester local bus network.

Service W24 (1952–1967)

Operated by Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Company Limited

Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Company Limited (BMMO—Midland “Red” Motor Services) added Service W24 to the Rainbow Hill corridor in the early-1950s. This ran over the same route as Service W14 and then continued past the W14 terminus at the junction of Field Road, along Blackpole Road to Hindlip Hall. There were just two departures a day on Wednesday and Saturday, plus an additional return journey in the late afternoon on Monday to Friday, school days only. The site had been government owned during the war and later passed to the police as a training college, so this bus service would likely have only been for the benefit of the staff there.

W24

Timetable Archive

June1957Worcester ↔ Hindlip Hall
June1962Worcester ↔ Hindlip Hall