West Midlands Stratford Road bus Corridor

West Midlands bus route 5, 5A and 6 are bus routes in Birmingham, United Kingdom
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Routes 5 and 6 are all bus routes linking Birmingham with Solihull.
Route 5 and 5A
Service 5 runs between Birmingham City Centre and Solihull rail station. Service 5 mainly run along the Stratford Road, alternatively to service 37 which runs mainly along the A41 Warwick Road. Service 5 runs from City Centre into Sparkbrook, and Sparkhill, but turns off from route 6 and head towards The Baldwin, Shirley, Monkspath, and Widney Manor Station, before heading into Solihull.
Route 6
Service 6 again runs between Birmingham City Centre and Solihull rail station. Again just as service 5 the route runs via Digbeth and on to Stratford Road, through Sparkbrook and Sparkhill into Hall Green and Shirley before heading into Solihull.
History
Service 5 and 5A
Service 5 dates back to pre-deregulation. This route used to be part of peek time services, which only ran Monday - Saturday early mornings and Monday - Friday both directions in the late evening. The reason why Saturdays, services only ran one way was basically to fill a gap left by service 6 in the early mornings. In 2009 in the Centro South Birmingham review. Service 5A is the peek time replacement for the short workings which used to be service 5. This variant was extended into Solihull and thus still links Birmingham with Solihull. Service 5 on the other hand picked up most of route 4 and again links Birmingham with Solihull runing every 20 minutes. Until recently service 5 has only run peek time service to Monkspath, dating back as far as records show. Service 4 dated back to pre-deregulation but has been withdrawn and incorporated into service 5.
Service 6
Service 6 dates back to pre-deregulation and has really unchanged. Back in 1999, service 6 used to run from Solihill to Birmingham Airport via Damsonwood. Specific journeys terminated in Solihull, others in Damsonwood and the majority in Birmingham Airport. In 2002 Service was curtailed to run Birmingham - Solihull. The section between Solihull and Birmingham Airport was replaced with service A6 now service 76.

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