Sunday, 4 March 2018
If Willam Shakespeare was alive today he'd white a ode to this Coney Island
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2 comments:
By the time you took this photo, Christopher, the X50 as we knew it had ceased to exist.
When COMS was split up ready for privatisation, the "traditional" X50 went (with the X59) to South Midland, who pulled out sometime after deregulation (probably because it was bought by Harry Blundred's Thames Transit who were more interested in competing in Oxford city).
The X50 then went through stages of vanishing, reappearing with a new operator and vanishing again.
Midland Red South tried running it alone but gave up; COMS introduced a version between Oxford and Stratford (the subject of your photo) which also failed, indeed I seem to recall that the COMS X50 was a retrenchment from a London - Oxford - Stratford extension of the "original" 190 London - Oxford Citylink service.
Later Stagecoach Midland Red (Mrs again) tried to reintroduce the Birmingham - Oxford X50 as a Stagecoach Express service, but that failed too.
Today Birmingham - Stratford is operated by Johnsons as the X20, Stratford - Chipping Norton is covered by a few trips on the Stagecoach Warwickshire 50, and Chippy - Oxford is Stagecoach Oxford's "gold" service S3.
I wish we still had routes like the X50 but it seems to me that interurban express coach services have pretty much had their day, with National Express having massively retrenched from the network I remember finding so interesting in the early 1980s, and Transdev's successful Manchester - Burnley/Blackburn expresses very much being the exception to a sad story of decline.
Ross, Harry Blundred's minibuses would have been better put to use on the Oxfordshire country roads than clogging up the city. I'm afraid Deregulation saw the end of a proper bus service and Oxford was a good example as CMOS like other similar companies had relied on the profitable town work to cover rural losses. CMOS was unusual in that apart from Oxford itself everything was rural and even it's garages were tiny with the biggest Witney only having eighteen buses. EYMS was another one with just one big garage in Hull but at least it some of it was semi-urban ulike Oxon.
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