Route History

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RE: Route History

(14/05/2019 08:20)St Helens Rider Wrote:  A bit of history on the 76 which slightly corrects things.

The service under Crosville only ran to Prescot. It was only Merseybus who extended it to St Helens and also later to Billinge (as a replacement for the 57). The service ran every 15 minutes between St Helens and Billinge with 1 per hour through to Liverpool (St Helens - Billinge journeys number 76A). This all finished in December 1989 when the 76 was withdrawn and Merseybus introduced the 42, 52 and 62 between St Helens and Wigan to compete fully with North Western.

Thanks for the info on the 76.

I suppose those Merseybus services to Wigan are now loosely Arriva's 352 now.

Pre de-reg was it only Crosville who ran the 76? Was there a short-journey 76 which ran from Broadgreen Hospital to Liverpool City Centre? I know there was a 69 service which went to Broadgreen as shown on the 1981 MPTE map but didn't know if this 76 existed before then which was separate to the Crosville 76's and 89A's around then?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dmc1947/84...4/sizes/k/

Credit: DMC1947

Before de-reg I know services generally were a bit different to what we have now. The Picton Road corridor certainly had a fair bit of Crosville involvement on it back then and MPTE used to work with and sub-contract routes to Crosville and Ribble back then. For instance the Crosville routes on the Prescot Road corridor like the H3 to Rainhill were quite extensive pre 1986.