+- Forum | Merseyside Dennis Dart Website (http://dartslf.com/forum)
+-- Forum: Buses (/forumdisplay.php?fid=1)
+--- Forum: Buses: The Old Days (/forumdisplay.php?fid=5)
+--- Thread: Merseytravel Joblink (/showthread.php?tid=238)
Merseytravel Joblink - buses7675 - 06/07/2012 15:56
Hi All,
While this isn't all that old, the many of the initial Joblink services that started in 2003 no longer run so I thought it'd be interesting to try to get some detail on them.
I can't find my old timetable from the time sadly (If I do I'll scan it in) but I've gleaned this bits from the VOSA website!
(I've posted this list incomplete, I'm still adding more as I go!)
HTL Buses
801 Liverpool, Paradise Street Bus Station - Alder Hey Hospital
802 Brunswick Station - Alder Hey Hospital
817 Broadway - Knowsley Ind Estate
821 Stockbridge Village - Prescot, Steley Way
830 Mann Island - PSBS (via Aintree) (Still operated by Cumfybus)
831 Mann Island - PSBS (via Aintree) (Still operated by Cumfybus)
841 Newton Station - Newton Station (via Earlestown)
837 Croxteth - Seaforth
846 Wavertree - Netherton (via Walton)
868 Toxteth - Toxteth (via Netherton)
870 Old Swan, Prescot Road - Huyton Industrial Estate (Still operated by Ace Travel/Halton Transport)
871 Broadgreen Hospital - Edge Hill Church
883 Speke - Prescot (Still operates between Speke - Huyton by HTL)
890 Huyton Bus Station - Kirkby Admin Gate
897 Huyton - Kirkby (Still Operated by HTL)
898 Page Moss - Kirkby Admin Gate (Still Operated by HTL)
899 Page Moss - Terminus Road (Still Operated by HTL)
Cumfybus
North Liverpool Community Transport (North Liverpool Community Wheels)
832 Runcorn - Runcorn (via Widnes, Liverpool Airport & Garston Station)
883 Huyton Industrial Estate - Liverpool Airport (Still operates between Speke - Huyton by HTL)
884 Halewood, Ravenscourt - Halewood, Ravenscourt (via Ford Factory, Airport & Garston)
885 Halewood, Ravenscourt - Halewood, Ravenscourt (via Ford Factory, Airport & Garston)
North Liverpool Community Transport's services were all operated using two Optare Aleros, YN03 UYG/H in Merseytravel Joblink livery. Once these services ended the two Aleros ended up at Cumfybus!
Raddoneur
RE: Merseytravel Joblink - T42 PVM - 06/07/2012 17:20
what was the point starting all this and 9 years later almost all of it gone
RE: Merseytravel Joblink - buses7675 - 06/07/2012 17:52
It was funded by a grant from the DTLR Urban Bus Challenge Initiative to start all these services up, at least some survive though, so it wasn't an entirely wasted effort!
RE: Merseytravel Joblink - J654UHN - 06/07/2012 21:23
883 is always busy when i see it so isnt a loss
RE: Merseytravel Joblink - buses7675 - 07/07/2012 13:40
(06/07/2012 21:23)J654UHN Wrote: 883 is always busy when i see it so isnt a loss
Even the 'quiet' afternoon run I saw yesterday with Mercedes Sprinter DK03 CWX on it left Belle Vale bound for the Airport with about 8-9 people on (quite tight for a 12 seat bus!)and must be being kept as that and a few Joblink routes are up for tender renewal in October they must be being used!
RE: Merseytravel Joblink - buses7675 - 07/07/2012 15:10
As an aside, while these aren't all Joblink services, some were 'Industrial Services' this is a list of all 8xx routes operated, according to the Merseytravel site archive from February 2004.
I'll update my original Joblink post shortly with Raddonuer and Cumfybus details but this overall list is quite useful too!
800 SPEKE - SEAFORTH
801 SPRINGWOOD - LIVERPOOL/ROYAL HOSPITAL
807 BROMBOROUGH/ASDA - MORETON CROSS
810 NEW BRIGHTON/KINGS PARADE - BIRKENHEAD/WOODSIDE
811 BROUGHTON SHOPPING CENTRE - LEASOWE, ROSS AVENUE
814 CITY CENTRE JAMES STREET - KIRKBY ADMIN
817 KNOWSLEY INDUSTRIAL EST - TOWNSEND AVE, BROADWAY
817 DEESIDE - ARROWE PARK HOSPITAL
821 WHISTON HOSPITAL - PAGE MOSS TERMINUS
821 WHISTON HOSPITAL - PAGE MOSS
830 LIVERPOOL MANN ISLAND - LIVERPOOL/PARADISE STREET
831 LIVERPOOL/PARADISE STREET - LIVERPOOL MANN ISLAND
832 GARSTON - BROOKVALE
832 RUNCORN/BROOKVALE - GARSTON STATION
834 LEA GREEN STATION - NEWTON STATION
835 NORTHWOOD/SIMONSWOOD LANE - SEAFORTH/RIMROSE RD
837 SEAFORTH - CROXTETH
838 HUNTS CROSS HOTEL/HILLFOOT AVE-SEAFORTH/RIMROSE RD
839 LONGVIEW - SEAFORTH
841 LEA GREEN/TRAIN STATION - NEWTON-LE-WILLOWS
847 CROXTETH/WILLOW WAY - EDGE LANE/SOUTHBANK ROAD
852 PENNY LANE/SMITHDOWN PLACE - OLD ROAN STATION
852 COUNTY ROAD/SPELLOW LANE-QUEEN SQUARE BUS STATION
853 WOODSIDE BUS STATION - EASTHAM FERRY
854 CLAUGHTON VILLAGE/UPTON ROAD - BROMBOROUGH
860 ALLERTON - LIVERPOOL/CITY CENTRE
863 KIRKBY CIVIC CENTRE - SPEKE/JAGUAR FACTORY
864 WAVERTREE TECHNOLOGY PARK - KIRKBY/CIVIC CENTRE
870 OLD SWAN/DERBY LANE - HUYTON INDUSTRIAL ESTATE
870 OLD SWAN BROADGREEN RD - HUYTON INDUSTRIAL ESTATE
874 TWELVE QUAYS TERMINAL - UPTON STATION
877 PARADISE ST BUS STN - JAGUAR FACTORY
881 BOOTLE STRAND BUS STN - SPEKE JAGUAR FACTORY
882 LIVERPOOL/PARADISE ST BUS STATION - JAGUAR FACTORY
883 PRESCOT/BRIDGE ROAD - SPEKE/EASTERN AVENUE
884 HALEWOOD - JOHN LENNON AIRPORT - HALEWOOD
885 HALEWOOD - JOHN LENNON AIRPORT - HALEWOOD
890 KIRKBY ADMIN GATE - HUYTON BUS STN
892 LIVERPOOL PARADISE STREET - KIRKBY ADMIN GATE
892 BOOTLE BUS STN - KIRKBY ADMIN GATE
897 KIRKBY ADMIN - OLD SWAN
898 PAGE MOSS - KIRKBY ADMIN GATE
899 KIRKBY ADMIN-PENNY LANE
RE: Merseytravel Joblink - 126th street - 07/07/2012 17:46
On a similar note Red Rider operated a Joblink-type service for a while between New Brighton and some industrial park on Deeside. I think it was three round trips a day to coincide with 6-2/2-10 shift changing times, the first journey leaving New Brighton at about 5am. They ran it with a Dart SLF demonstrator for a while.
RE: Merseytravel Joblink - buses7675 - 07/07/2012 19:09
That was route 850 I think, going back in the archives there is a pic of the Dart SLF/Caetano Nimbus demo REL 905 in Red Rider depot with the screen set for the route!
http://dartslf.com/archives/images/20002002/FirstRedRider.jpg
Not a good pic at all but at least it shows the bus with the screen set correctly! Pic was taken in early December 2000 I think as the bus was eventually re-registered with a W reg plate.
RE: Merseytravel Joblink - Jack - 13/07/2012 22:53
Off topic I know, sorry! But what happened to that bus?
Also back on topic, I have a timetable somewhere for the 834/841 (Lea Green-Newton), does anyone know when these two finished?