Midland Red bus memories kept alive at transport museum

It's now exactly 40 years since a fleet of distinctive Midland Red buses last carried passengers all around the Midlands, but a transport museum in Worcestershire remains determined to preserve their memory. Just off junction three of the M42, about 10 miles from the centre of Birmingham, sits Transport Museum Wythall. It's home to a fleet of 90 single and double-decker buses, housed in a collection of buildings that ooze nostalgia, with Midland Red buses to the fore. "Midland Red was the most important bus company in Great Britain," believes museum collections manager Malcolm Keeley.