WMPTE : bus and rail services in Walsall, Aldridge, Brownhills and Cannock : map : [3rd. edition] December 1973 : West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive : Walsall scan

            A scan of the western sections of the WMPTE bus map of the North Division's Walsall operating area. This includes the town's urban network as well as what had prior, prior to the creation of the PTE in 1969, Walsall's extensive network to the north and east of the town into towns such as Cannock and Lichfield and the various surrounding villages. Much of this area was, at the time, coal mining territory. To the south of the sheet routes in the West Bromwich area, several previously jointly operated with that town's Corporation are shown. Within Walsall several routes that until the previous year had been trolleybus operated are shown.

The map is dated December 1973 and on the 3rd of that month WMPTE had assumed control of the routes and assets of the old Midland Red bus operations within the Metropolitan County boundary. Towards the south of this sheet can be seen the now blue routes that on earlier editions had been shown in red. Whereas the old Wolverhampton 'country' routes that the PTE had operated passed to Midland Red, the Cannock area network even though outside the County boundary remained with the PTE. Two long established indepedent operators are shown; Harper Brothers and the Green Bus Company.

This appears to the third edition of the map as I have earlier ones marked 'second' and what appears to be a first. This is also before the wholesale renumbering of routes into a PTE-wide structure.

Taken on: December 26, 2024

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