Skelhorne Street Coach Station

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RE: Skelhorne Street Coach Station

(13/12/2012 20:41)teenagewasteland Wrote:  The thing about Skelhorne Street Coach Station was is it served a purpose. Nothing more, nothing less.

The whole complex, upstairs and downstairs, was cramped to the extreme. But it did its' job, and the facility was right in the centre of town.

The undercover bus stations are really becoming a thing of the past in these times - and it's purely to do with commercial considerations. North Western closed Skelhorne Street, along with Crosby and Southport bus stations within three years of de-reg, thereby cluttering the streets with more buses incurring more dead mileage. Super!

In the lower bus station, buses departing from the first couple of bays had to reverse half way out of the entrance, then go back in to the bus station to the exit, in order to exit. I do remember both levels being quite tight for vehicle movements. Think the owners of North Western at the time who sold the bus stations were asset strippers, more interested selling off any part of what the company owned if it made a profit.

Strange to think all the bus stations in Liverpool City Centre at D-Reg have been all demolished, Mann Island is more of a terminus than a bus station.

Although i do remember Skelhorne Street, i didn't use the bus station much, the time i started crossing the River, North Western wouldn't allow Saveaways on there buses due to a dispute with Merseytravel