Talk:Travel West Midlands

The list of routes seems a bit disproportionate to the rest of the article - whilst the information could be useful, it is dwarfing the rest of the article. I'd like to suggest splitting it out into a separate List of Travel West Midlands bus routes article. --Harris 09:37, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've cleaned the article up to make it more formal and factual. Not sure if I'm allowed to delete the cleanup-tone tag myself though.

Westbromdepot 23:41, 4 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

We've now got a similar problem with the list of depots as we did with the list of routes. Whilst I'd be tempted to split the depot lists of into a separate article, I've noted that none of the information is referenced - possible verifiability or original research problems exist. Without independent backup of the data, it can't remain in the article. --Harris 18:40, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This article is no different to other ones representing large bus operators. For example -

• Arriva London
• Travel London
• First London
• East London

None of those articles have sources or references either. If you're going to suggest that this page should be altered then do the same for these ones too.

Westbromdepot 23:53, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, they should do. I might look at those in detail at some point, but you're just as welcome to. Do you/anybody else have any sources for the information on the depots in the article? --Harris 12:25, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Further observation on the other articles: Some of them appear to have possibly interesting details on the history of the depots and so on. At the moment, the article is getting a bit listcrufty. See also WP:UNENC. --Harris 11:20, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:54, 30 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As most people will know, Travel West Midlands is soon going to be re-named, as part of National Express Group's re-branding scheme. Because I think Travel West Midlands and National Express West Midlands will eventually become equally sized brands, I have created a new stub article for National Express West Midlands.

The idea is that when the names change gradually takes over, the current operational details of TWM can be transferred to the new article, and the TWM page put into the past tense - as essentially it will be history!! This will avoid future problems if the current TWM page has the details of the new brand put on it, such as the past TWM info being drowned out by other stuff, or an article that is too long and confusing. When this 'transfer of info' takes place, I (or someone else) can rename the List of Travel West Midlands bus routes article, as this has no real historical aspect to it.

This is why I have taken the new National Express logo out of the info box, and put the old TWM logo back in. I have put the new national express logo onto the new National Express West Midlands article I have created.

Hopefully you can see the logic in this plan - to avoid any future problems and to make the two brands clearer to he reader with distinctive internal links.

If you have any ideas or you wish to change it, me leave a message here or my talk page. Thanks, -- Arriva436 (talk) 21:35, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]