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There is already a 23 isn't there, Gillmoss to City Centre.

The 22/23 are being withdrawn on same date (see new 20/21 timetable for details).

That is something I didn't know, probably because I haven't looked at the timetables.

E10
http://www.merseytravel.gov.uk/travellin...02014).pdf

(19/12/2013 00:39)mr t Wrote: [ -> ]Very strange for it to be an X3, surely a 3 or 23 would have done!

To signify it's fast?

(20/12/2013 17:37)F255ytj Wrote: [ -> ]E10
http://www.merseytravel.gov.uk/travellin...02014).pdf

Shame to see them go as they are well used. Could do with some sort of replacement for the E11 as Ravenhead Retail Park is quite a way from other routes and I think Merseytravel should put the 135 back to every hour (currently 5 journeys per day) as a part-replacement to Morrisons.

Where these Smart eco services in St Helens funded with some special funds that Merseytravel no longer have available to them.

The original plan I think was to replace them with 6 Hybrids next year but someone posted on here a few days back that this order had been cancelled.

End of the Merseytravel Smart bus project then sadly, 12/07/1993 - 22/02/2014

Interestingly though, they'll be withdrawn almost exactly 20 years after the main L reg batch of Neoplans entered service, which was on 19/02/1994.

I wonder whether it'll be a prompt for Arriva to re-route a service through Ravenhead (and the Linkway Tesco?) again now that they face no competition from a free service... Particularly if a link to Tesco was introduced, I could see that being a viable proposition.