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28 bus route

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philbee

birmingham born and bred
afternoon all
heres one for all the bus experts i used to catch the 28 at the fox and goose to go to the pelham but i cant remember where the bus went after i got off anyone got the bus route as a matter of interest?
phil :encouragement:
 
Philbee

I'm sure after the Pelham it then went up Belchers Lane and all the way to Small Heath by the back of the park.

Suzanne
 
Phil how far do you want to go.It continued up Belchers Lane and turned right onto Yardley Green Rd.Dek
 
dek and suzanne
thanks for your prompt reply i only ask because i only went as far as the pelham on the 28 and i was having a senior moment the other night when it suddenly came to me and i was trying to work out where it went from there i presume it went into town or did it terminate somwhere?
phil
 
I know the #28 went through Kingstanding. It came along Dyas Road, then Hawthorn Road, down to Perry Common Library. I used to catch it to school and got off at Short Heath Road. I think it must have started in Great Barr somewhere as it came along Dyas Road and crossed Kingstanding Road to go down Hawthorn Road.. Viv.
 
Oh yes it went through Erdington too, near to Station Road, then I think on towards Chester Road. Viv.
 
The 28 came up from town through Digbeth and Deritend, turned left under Bordesley Station bridge, went down Coventry Road, turned right by the Old Lodge pub into Bordesley Park Road, then along Bolton Road toward Small Heeth Park. From the corner of Bordesley Park Road to Oakley Road was a penny ha'penny....
 
Never realised the #28 went through town. Funny how you only really know your own neck of the woods. I always thought the 28 ran from Dyas Rd to somewhere along the Chester Road!! That seems to be only a small part of the route. Viv.
 
Getting into full swing now. I remember the # 28 went from Erdington, Yenton, up to Wylde Green bowling alley, then turned right at that junction onto Chester Road, past Ansty college (used to have a brown sign with gold lettering for the college on the left hand side), then along Kingsbury Road past the Tyburn Inn. Then it went past Austin Rover on the right, Casle Vale on the left. I think it then went on to Castle Brom, although not too sure about that.Viv.
 
What an interesting question, the 28 bus route was also one of those mysteries I was unable to solve too.

I remember the terminus at Dyas Road, all the way throught Short heath, Erdington, Chester Road Pype Hayes, past the Clock Garage Castel Bromwich and on up the Newport Road.

That was a far as I ever got, but I am sure it used to say ‘Lakey lane loop’ on the sign on the front.
 
Just spoken to my Exhusband who did his 'routes' as a bus driver almost 50 years ago.
He recalls
The Markets Edgbaston Street to Small Heath
Golden hillock road,
St Benedicts Road
Green Lane
Belchers Lane
The Pelham
the Fox and Goose
Newport road
Chester road, Pype Hayes
turn left at the 'Pavilion'
right at Station road crossroads,
Erdington Red Lion
Short heath road
Kingstanding
Dyas Road Terminus.
 
thanks for all replies to my query its funny how we all used to use these buses but only know the part of the route that we used heres another the 56 from the clock garage i remember when you could see the passengers jumping from the rear platform as they came round the island just so they could catch their next bus they all looked like paratroopers when they alighted of course a practice stopped when they brought in the new buses
phil
 
philbee said:
thanks for all replies to my query its funny how we all used to use these buses but only know the part of the route that we used heres another the 56 from the clock garage i remember when you could see the passengers jumping from the rear platform as they came round the island just so they could catch their next bus they all looked like paratroopers when they alighted of course a practice stopped when they brought in the new buses
phil
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Yes there was a knack to stepping off the back of a moving bus without doing cartwheels in the road.

We used to step off the no 5 as it was going up Witton Lodge Road.
 
A bit of a basic question, but is the 28 still running, and along the same route? Viv
 
Vivienne14 said:
A bit of a basic question, but is the 28 still running, and along the same route? Viv
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https://www.brumagem.co.uk/Bus-Route-28_Birmingham.shtm

Not much of a change from the old route, but I note it ends now in Bordesley.I used to live on the corner of Short Heath and Streetly Rd and the 28 stopped right outside the house. The 28 formed a part of my Sunday 'treat' on occasions for several years. My dad used to take me into town on the 65 and that was when the terminus was by the General. We used to walk up past the Gaumomt and into Colmore Row, cut through by the churchyard and down into Corporation St and into New St station. We'd then catch the train to Lichfield, and then back to New St, out into Station St and catch the 28 home. Some of the route now is vague, but I remember coming out and turning right at the Birds custard facory, then under the bridge by what used to be Dolls club and down Coventry Road, then we turned right and ended up in Small Heath somewhere. Trying to think of the name of the road in Small Heath where the driver had to clock in. Then Bordesley, Washwood heath, Castle Brom, Pype Hayes, past the Yenton, down to the Pavillion, turn ledt into Gravelly Lane past the Crown and Cushion, Red Lion and home.

Just remembered it was Waverely Rd where the driver used to have to clock coming into town and Bordesley Green out of town

Aslo just remembered we tried to name all of the pubs we passed on the route. The ones I can remember are:

Red Lion, Crown and Cushion, Yenton, The bagot, Tyburn House, Fox and Goose and the Pelham
 
Going onwards from Short Heath towards Kingstanding, I think the only pub in between would have been the Crossways at Perry Common. Going the other way along Chester Road, there was also the Digby, set right back from the road.

I used to catch the 28 at the junction of Streetly Road and Short Heath Road, or at the bottom of Bleak Hill. I can tell you us school girls were barbaric when it came to getting onto that bus. We took NO prisoners!!! Viv.
 
Viv Don,t forget the Golden Cross on the corner of Turfpits Lane. Now gone replaced with houses. Dek
 
Vivienne14 said:
Going onwards from Short Heath towards Kingstanding, I think the only pub in between would have been the Crossways at Perry Common. Going the other way along Chester Road, there was also the Digby, set right back from the road.

I used to catch the 28 at the junction of Streetly Road and Short Heath Road, or at the bottom of Bleak Hill. I can tell you us school girls were barbaric when it came to getting onto that bus. We took NO prisoners!!! Viv.
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If only I'd had known Viv, you could have popped in for a cup of rosie.

btw it wasn't the Crown and Cushion in Gravelly Lane it was the Rose and Crown. The Crown and Cushion is in Perry Barr
 
dek carr said:
Viv Don,t forget the Golden Cross on the corner of Turfpits Lane. Now gone replaced with houses. Dek
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Closest pub to where I lived. Remember the lounge had a fake tree in the middle, and in the room on the right as you went in they had groups. I used to know a couple in a group that played there regularly called The Climbers. Think it turned into a club for a while, Oshea's rings a bell. When I was a kid there were often punch ups inside and out on a Friday or Saturday night.
 
Just remembered something else about the 28 route. Coming from Kingstanding (Hawthorn Road) and just before you hit College Rd on the left was (might still be) the Old Edwardians cricket ground. They had an old plane at the entrance, might well have been a Spitfire. Anyone else remember that?
 
I remember getting on the No 28 bus on the Chester Road with my brother, to the stop before the Pelham by the shops, how happy I was to be travelling THAT way because we were going to my Nanny & Grandad for our holiday.........................

After the holidays were over my brother & I got on the No 28 to return to the stop just before Orphanage Road with a very sad heart as my brother & I, plus suitcases, slowly walked back to the Orphanage
How I hated THAT return journey :crushed:
 
The Lakey Lane Loop was used by the 31,31A and 32 routes running to the Acocks Green area. All routes arrived at the same terminus but as I recall the 31 went via Shaftmoor Lane the 32 followed a different route but I can't remember where. If memory is correct the 31 returned as a 32 and the 32 as a 31.
Lloyd should be able to help......his memory is far superior to mine.
 
h i tardbridge
if my memory serves me correctly it did at one time travel up the foremans rd and stopped ot side lucas ;
as we caught a bus rom the city centre one or the other ; ie ; new street or corporation street
and we got off out side lucas.s i went with a friend to meet his father to asked for some money for his mothr as she had o mony that day for the
and as they was of an irish oringn the fatherliked his drink; his mother ws profound death nd they livedin braithwate street spark hill
and sghe needed money this was 1961 period and it made its way across the tysleys to gospel lane . but it as changed many years ago ;
best wishes astonian ;;
 
[FONT=&amp]Hi Mortum,

From recollection the destination blind on the 28 bus
read ' Station Street and Great Barr via Small Heath'

The 31A and the 32 both terminated at Gospel Lane Loop
the 31A turning off the Stratford Road at Shaftmoor lane,
and going via Olton Boulevard East, , Warwick Road, Gospel
Lane, and Severne Road. The 32 turned off the Stratford
Road at School Road Hall Green, and crossed Fox Hollies Road
into Lakey Lane. What I would like to know is what happened
to the 31 route, as I don't think I ever saw a 31 bus!

Kind regards[/FONT]
 
Thanks Dave89 for the info. I assume this subject of the 31/32 route relates to when BCT/WMPTE operated. I once again from memory the 31A only went part way, possibly to the factory on Shaftmoor Lane. Since you never saw at 31, here's a picture of 2974 running the 31 and 2321 on the 32
 

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Hi Tardebigge,

The 31A bus did terminate at Gospel Lane Loop, - that's
what puzzles me! By the way, the bus in the picture is a 31A.
I'm thinking back to BCT days, and their 1950's route map
doesn't seem to show the 31 either!

Kind regards

Dave
 
Hi Astonian

I think the only bus that stopped outside Lucas's
in Formans Road was the 36 'Stechford and Station Street
via Formans Road' It turned left at the top of Formans Road
then right along Olton Boulevard West., then left at Tynedale
Road to Knight's Road, and across the Warwick Road. It then
went up Tyseley Hill Road, and along Kings Road to Hay Mills,
then on to Stechford terminus at Richmond Road Stechford.

Hope you are well,

Kind regards

Dave
 
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