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Coventry Corporation Transport Society

Service 12: Burton Green

Frequency to and from the Pool Meadow

Monday to Thursday: every hour
Friday: every hour
Peak Period: every hour
Evenings: every hour
Saturday: every hour

1962 Route

Pool Meadow to Burton Green

From Pool Meadow via Hales Street, Corporation Street, Queen Victoria Road, Queens Road, The Butts, Spon End, Hearsall Lane, Canley Road, Sir Henry Parkes Road, Kirby Corner Road, Westwood Heath Road and Cromwell Lane to the terminus at Red Lane. Probable terminus details from road layout:

  • "All passengers alight here" just before Red Lane;
  • Bus pulled forward, reversed into Red Lane, then turned right back into Cromwell Lane for layover and pick-up.

Fare Stages from Pool Meadow to Burton Green

Pre-1961

Coventry Technical College, Hearsall Common, junction of Canley Road with Sir Henry Parkes Road, Coventry Training College, Green's Farm and junction of Cromwell Lane with Westwood Heath Road.

1962

Hill Street, Coventry Technical College, Farman Road, Standard Motor Company, Burnsall Road, Centenary Road, Coventry Training College, Westwood Cottages, Green's Farm, Bockendon Road, junction of Cromwell Lane with Westwood Heath Road and Burton House.

History of the Route

April 1936

Route acquired from Bunty Motorways from Pool Meadow to Burton Green, running via Canley and Westwood Heath as Service 18. Route not specified but probably Hales Street, Corporation Street, Fleet Street, Queen Victoria Road, Queens Road, The Butts, Spon End, Hearsall Lane, Canley Road, Ivy Farm Lane, Shultern Lane, Kirby Corner Road, Westwood Heath Road and Cromwell Lane, terminating at Red Lane.

August 1951

Service 18 diverted away from Ivy Farm Lane and Shultern Lane, reaching Kirby Corner Road via Charter Avenue and Sir Henry Parkes Road.

August 1953

Service 18 further diverted away from Canley Road via Sir Henry Parkes Road directly to Kirby Corner. Original Service 18A reduced by a third, but supplemented by services running from Corporation Street via Canley Road and Charter Avenue as far as Mitchell Avenue.

March 1955

Service12 created by renumbering the Burton Green Service 18 to allow the Canley route to take over Service 18. Route via Hales Street, Corporation Street, Fleet Street, Spon Street, Spon End, Hearsall Lane, Canley Road, Sir Henry Parkes Road, Kirby Corner Road, Westwood Heath Road and Cromwell Lane, terminating at Red Lane.

History of the Service Number

1932

Introduced as a new service from Pool Meadow to Brownshill Green probably via Hales Street and Bishop Street and then via Radford Road and Brownshill Green Road.

1939

Service discontinued, although works buses continued to use the route to the Browns Lane Factory.