| Metrowest was founded by Keith Danks in the late 1980’s as an independent bus operator in the Dudley area. Keith Danks is a railway enthusiast so he adopted a livery made up of GWR locomotive green and GWR coach cream and the company ran a network of bus service, many of which competed with West Midlands Travel. The most hotly contested of which was the Dudley to Wolverhampton section of the service 126 where Metrowest reintroduced the old service number 125 for the short workings on the route. The company was finally taken over by West Midlands Travel in the early 1990’s who created a new company called Black Country Buses Ltd trading as Metrowest. It acted as their low cost subsidiary in the Dudley area after the company closed their garage there in 1993. Many Leyland Nationals were added to the fleet with examples coming from both the WMT fleet and the former Tame Valley Travel fleet which WMT had purchased a few years earlier. The company finally stopped operating in the late 1990’s when the operation was absorbed back into the main WMT/TWM fleet. |
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