Route History

[Walton 46]

RE: Route History

(11/01/2020 18:17)MTL0201 Wrote:  It does, started out as
1 New Brighton-Seacombe, Wallasey Corporation
1A New Brighton-Seacombe, Wallasey Corporation
12 Charing Cross-Egremont, Birkenhead Corporation
1A went down some side streets in New Brighton & Egremont
PTE merged the 1 & 12 in the mid 70s to become New Brighton-Charing Cross, 1A was withdrawn
1985 one, 1 an hour was extended to Poulton Lancelyn replacing the 12, numbered 1A

At d-reg the 1 was extended to Woodside with a Merseytravel 101 introduced, 1A withdrawn.
In 1991, Merseybus extended the 1 as 1C to operate New Brighton-Chester, partly replacing 9C/10C which were Liscard/Woodside-Chester via Ellesmere Port, 1C operated direct via A4, evenings were 1/1C but Sunday's it was 1 New Brighton-Woodside only

In 1996 1C was diverted via Liscard & renumbered 10C, leaving the 1 New Brighton-Woodside, the 1 interworked with the 431/432/433/434

After the Arriva takeover, Arriva changed the routes, 10C was withdrawn, 1 renumbered 401 & extended to Chester replacing 10C, evening & Sundays Merseytravel tendered New Brighton-Woodside only but numbered 401

Not sure when, but the 401 was diverted to operate Liverpool-Chester, 401 New Brighton-Woodside section renumbered 411, 411 has stayed virtually unchanged but rerouted a few years ago into it's current route via Twelve Quays.

I've just looked at my timetable collection and the changeover appears to have occurred sometime during 2007. I have two timetables; one dated 7th January and one dated 24th December.
In the first one, the 401 operated from New Brighton to Chester Monday-Saturday daytime and there was also a 402 which mirrored the 401 from New Brighton but finished at Cheshire Oaks, again Monday-Saturday daytime and Sunday daytime service 411/412. There was also an X11 which ran hourly Monday-Saturday daytime between Sir Thomas Street in Liverpool and Chester via Birkenhead Bus Station, the New Ferry bypass and the direct route between Great Sutton and Backford.
By the time the second one was published, the service had been split at Birkenhead. The 401 was revised to operate from Sir Thomas Street and was rerouted via New Chester Road instead of Old Chester Road. The 402 was revised to start from Woodside but curtailed at the southern end, finished in Ellesmere Port. The 401/402 also had route revisions between Little Sutton and Ellesmere Port and a new circular service 404 had been introduced between Stanney Grange and Little Sutton. The X11 had also been reduced to a handful of Monday-Friday peak hour services. The 24th December timetable also mentions a 441 service which had been withdrawn on that date, but I don't have any details to hand