THE GALLERY
Midlands |
 MIDLAND RED SOUTH Coaches |
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The X50 Oxford-Birmingham was a long established service, jointly operated at one time by Stratford Blue and City of Oxford. It became part of the Stagecoach Express network and this vehicle was dedicated to the service, bearing appropriate side lettering including a stylised Blenheim Palace! The Plaxton Paramount bodied Tiger bears a registration inherited from another Midland Red South acquisition - G & G of Leamington Spa. The Stratford Blue operation passed to the 'real' Midland Red back in the seventies. The bus is seen in Oxford in the late 1990s.
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Stagecoach Midland Red was something of a 'poor relation' Stagecoach fleet. Whilst the above Tiger was not the latest equipment, this Plaxton Supreme Leopard seen in Oxford in July 1998 paled against the Premier bodied B10Ms used by United Counties on express routes serving Oxford. It even detracted from the native Stagecoach Oxford fleet of the time!
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Another Tiger/Paramount on the X50, with the low driving position and deep screen from the Paramount 3500. It too is in Oxford's Gloucester Green Bus and Coach Station. Sadly the X50 has since been truncated at Stratford and assigned to Stagecoach Oxford as part of the cutbacks in Stratford-upon-Avon and the services once operated by the
smart Stratford Blue fleet though through services to Birmingham were possible on Sundays in 2010. However Stagecoach's Megabus links Birmingham and Oxford daily.
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