Alternate services 8 and 8A.
Monday to Thursday: every 8 minutes
Friday: every 8 minutes
Peak Period: every 6 minutes
Evenings: every 10 minutes
Saturday: every 5 minutes
Sunday: every 12 minutes (every 8 minutes after 1.30 pm - reduced service before 9.30 am)
N.B. Service 8 to Tile Hill South ran in peak periods only with a frequency of every 15 minutes.
From Pool Meadow via Hales Street, Corporation Street, Spon Street, Spon End, Hearsall Lane and Tile Hill Lane to Bushberry Avenue then:
(a) Service 8 continued along Tile Hill Lane and Station Avenue to the terminus at Torrington Avenue. Known terminus details from personal recollection:
(b) Service 8A via Bushberry Avenue and Jardine Crescent to purpose-built terminus just past Jardine Crescent shops. Probable terminus details from road layout:
An additional Service 8 in peak hours diverted from Tile Hill Lane at Eastcotes via Eastcotes and Torrington Avenue to Tile Hill South Terminus at Nickson Road. Probable terminus details from road layout:
Barras Lane, Hearsall Common, Standard Gates, Newlands, then:
(a) Hawthorn Lane (8 to Tile Hill Village);
(b) Pinnock Place
N.B. Tile Hill South Service started in August 1957, Fare Stage location unknown, possibly Eastcotes.
Hill Street, Barras Lane, Farman Road, Broad Lane and Standard Cinema, then:
(a) Junction of Eastcotes with Torrington Avenue and Wolfe Road (8 to Tile Hill South);
(b) Jobs Lane and junction of Tile Hill Lane with Bushberry Avenue, then:
(i) Junction of Bushberry Avenue with Jardine Crescent (8A);
(ii) Pigswood Hill (8 to Tile Hill Village).
Introduced as a new service from Greyfriars Green to Tile Hill via Queens Road, The Butts, Spon End, Hearsall Lane, Tile Hill Lane and Station Road.
City terminus moved from Greyfriars Green to the new Pool Meadow and ran via Hales Street, Corporation Street, and Queen Victoria Road to rejoin the original route at Queens Road.
Rerouted via Spon Street to Spon End, avoiding Queen Victoria Road, Queens Road and The Butts.
Tile Hill terminus extended to Duggins Lane Hostel. This extension lasted until the end of the war in 1945.
Short working to Beech Tree Avenue was renumbered Service 8A.
Almost all 8A services were extended to the Tile Hill terminus and renumbered Service 8.
Service supplemented by a new 8A service to Tile Hill North turning at Bushberry Avenue.
Extended into Tile Hill North via Bushberry Avenue and Jardine Crescent with the terminus at Jardine Crescent shops.
New additional service established to Tile Hill South by diverting along Flechamstead Highway and into Torrington Avenue, turning at Nickson Road.
Tile Hill South service diverted from Fletchamstead Highway via Eastcotes.