(18/06/2018 06:50)St Helens Rider Wrote: [ -> ]One of my friends used to live in the Billinge area and he told me that the vehicles would run in service through to/from Wigan displaying 89/89A - sounds like a fantastic through route.
It's annoying only the cross Town routes run through St Helens Town centre, i miss the days when the 34/320 used to run through to/ from Liverpool.
(18/06/2018 07:11)MTL0201 Wrote: [ -> ]It's annoying only the cross Town routes run through St Helens Town centre, i miss the days when the 34/320 used to run through to/ from Liverpool.
Can't agree more and the lack of Express/Limited Stop services also makes journeys today very long and tedious, although having said that they have probably been quicker than relying on the trains recently.
(18/06/2018 07:51)St Helens Rider Wrote: [ -> ]Can't agree more and the lack of Express/Limited Stop services also makes journeys today very long and tedious, although having said that they have probably been quicker than relying on the trains recently.
Yep the old 34 took 45 minutes Liverpool-St Helens[320 took 45-50 minutes as well], the modern 10 takes 65 minutes, always remember when i was on it we were always early too, also the case of arriving early at Earlstown, Newton Le Willows, Leigh & Astley
Its like the old merseybus/mtl :
15/16 parr - eccleston
510 liverpool - bolton
10 liverpool - ashton
27A st helens junction - gillars green
22-22A clockface/bold - Dodd avenue
All use to create useful links around st helens.
You also had the 6/6A St Helens Junction-Hard Lane
23/24 Clinkham Wood- Sutton Manor
Been looking at the 1, St Helens-Atherton, on the face of it that was a bizarre pointlless route, much of the route covered by other routes mainly 32 Hindley-Atherton & 320 Platt Bridge-St Helens, also interesting the LUT Atherton depot was the Southside of Atherton towards Leigh, the GM Buses depot i'm familiar with was near the rail station on the Northside of Atherton.
Come to think about it, in 70s & 80s St Helens had a few companies operating in the area, you had MPTE, GMPTE, LUT, Crosville & Ribble.
Come to think of it, I am surprised the 1 was never extended to Bolton given the area was LUT's empire. Would have been a straight forward and very useful route.
(18/06/2018 11:36)St Helens Rider Wrote: [ -> ]Come to think of it, I am surprised the 1 was never extended to Bolton given the area was LUT's empire. Would have been a straight forward and very useful route.
Come to think of it,at the height of the MTL/GM Buses wars, when the 10 was extended to operate Liverpool-Manchester, didn't that follow the old 1 from St Helens to Atherton then to Bolton, & via the 56 to Manchester?
(24/06/2018 02:21)MTL0201 Wrote: [ -> ]Come to think of it,at the height of the MTL/GM Buses wars, when the 10 was extended to operate Liverpool-Manchester, didn't that follow the old 1 from St Helens to Atherton then to Bolton, & via the 56 to Manchester?
Think it did but it followed the then 12 route between Bolton and Manchester.
(24/06/2018 06:23)St Helens Rider Wrote: [ -> ]Think it did but it followed the then 12 route between Bolton and Manchester.
Some reason i thought it was the 36 the 10 followed, i'd love to see the 10 timetable from that era though.