Walsall’s transport heritage is being kept alive with a newly-repainted single-decker, reports Nick Larkin
Walsall residents are once again able to ride on a bus bearing the livery of their long-lost local municipal operator after a previous vehicle wearing it was damaged by fire. Modern day operator National Express West Midlands (NXWM) has painted several buses in liveries of of local municipals, which were absorbed into West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive in 1969, with Coventry following in 1974. The PTE’s bus fleet would become West Midlands Travel post deregulation and is now NXWM.
Sadly the Alexander Dennis Trident in Walsall Corporation blue with yellow lining, BX54 DDJ, was was one of several buses damaged by fire at the NXWM depot in the town on 28 December. Although a number of buses were involved, there were no injuries.
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