Lancashire United Transport

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RE: Lancashire United Transport
I remember when LUT had a depot in Liverpool in Bentley Road, near Sefton Park, which had a couple of double-deckers for duplicates on the 320 and a few coaches for the Tyne Tees Mersey expresses. The staff were mainly ex-Ribble. There was an office at the coach terminus in Canning Place.
I often travelled on the last service back from Manchester. The official route into Liverpool was via Hope Street and Upper Duke Street, but the conductor would ask the passengers where they were going to and usually we would continue down Brownlow Hill and everyone would get off by the side of the Adelphi, much more convenient than Canning Place! The coach could then turn left and head straight back to Bentley Road.
The depot closed in the mid sixties and LUT asked Ribble if they could outstation them but the only depot with spare capacity was Aintree which was a bit far out, so Liverpool Corporation accommodated them at Edge Lane. The arrangement did not last very long with the exchange of routes between GMPTE and NBC when there was no longer a need for a depot in Liverpool.