Abbreviation | WMPTE |
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Predecessor |
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Successor | Transport for West Midlands |
Formation | 1 October 1969 |
Dissolved | 17 June 2016 |
Type | Passenger transport executive |
Legal status | Dissolved |
Purpose | Public transport |
Headquarters | Birmingham, England |
Region served | West Midlands (county) parts of Staffordshire |
Parent organisation |
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The West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive (WMPTE) was the public body responsible for public transport in the West Midlands metropolitan county in the United Kingdom from 1969 until 2016. The organisation operated under the name Centro from 1990, and was publicly branded as Network West Midlands from 2005.
Initially, WMPTE was also responsible for the operation of bus services within the West Midlands. However, following deregulation in 1986 it ceased operating services directly and assumed a purely coordinating role.
WMPTE was dissolved in 2016 following the establishment of the West Midlands Combined Authority and its transport arm, Transport for West Midlands (TfWM).