Arriva Midlands route 1

Arriva Midlands Route 1 is a bus route operating in the West Midlands and Staffordshire areas of England.

Present

Route 1 was previously operated by Arriva Midlands and Chase Bus Services at a half hourly frequency per company, however following Arriva Midlands takeover of Chase in 2007, Arriva Midlands became the sole operater and began operating the service every 20 minutes under the 'Chaselinx' brand.

Previously using an allocation of old step entrance Dennis Dart's in early 2008, the service was seeing a wide variety of bus types used on it. However in April 2008, 4 spare low floor DAF buses were rebranded for the route in the new ChaseLinx branding.

Route

*Walsall Bus Station
*Bloxwich
*Landywood
*Cheslyn Hay
*Cannock

Because the route passes under a low arch bridge at Churchbridge on the A34 near it's junction with the A5 this service must be operated by single deck vehicles. Travelling into Cannock passing under this low bridge reduces journey time.For a short period of time during 2007 the service was re-routed to travel westbound along the A5 passing under a taller bridge - and at this time double decker buses were sometimes used on the service.