‘West Midlands Bus’ partnership to end on 29th August 2021

Diamond Bus will be operating separately with new timetables and the following service changes:

• 31 Walsall to Mossley – Diamond will operate a new frequent timetable, up to every 5 minutes between Walsall & Bloxwich and every 10 minutes between Walsall and Mossley, Mondays to Saturdays and every 15 minutes on Sundays.
• 32 Walsall to Lower Farm – Diamond will no longer operate on this service.
• 40 West Bromwich to Wednesbury – Diamond will operate a new 15 minute frequency, Mondays to Saturdays
• 42 West Bromwich to Tipton – Diamond will operate a new timetable up to a 20 minute frequency, Mondays to Saturdays. Diamond will no longer serve the Tipton to Dudley section of the 42 route and will terminate at Tipton Rail Station.
• 43/43A West Bromwich to Bilston – Diamond will operate a new timetable up to a 20 minute frequency, Mondays to Saturdays. Diamond will no longer serve the 43A section along Loxdale St and all Diamond 43 services will operate via Bert Williams Leisure Centre.
• 42/43 West Bromwich to Great Bridge – The combined timetable of our new 42 & 43 services will offer a 10 minute frequency between West Bromwich and Great Bridge.

We’ll be returning to our distinctive Diamond blue livery buses and providing you with our best rate fares available on the Diamond network. You’ll still be able to enjoy the same enhanced onboard Diamond services such as next stop screens and passenger Wifi – all at our great value prices.

After 29th August, our current ticketing agreement with National Express will come to an end. This means that National Express Tickets will no longer be accepted or sold on our services. Diamond Value tickets will also no longer be valid or issued on NX services along these routes. We will continue to accept nBus, Swift and Swift Go multi-operator tickets on all of our services.