Arriva North West - Runcorn Depot

[mr t]

RE: Arriva North West - Runcorn Depot
Nope! They go way back to when Arriva took MTL over and renumbered the routes in April 2000, a long time ago, when the 79C was first introduced - the 79A went to Lee Park, 79B was run my CMT and went to Belle Vale, the 79D went down London Road, the 79C, initially was an extra service every 10/12 minutes over the 79 Liverpool - Netherley (due to the amount of other competition on the route), and went round the back of Netherley rather than into Netherley (still run by Speke then for about 2 years), then it was transferred to Runcorn and extended to Runcorn combining with its 30 route (which ran Runcorn - Widnes - Hough Green), in full competition with Haltons 14.
The 82A was originally the H25/H26, which became 25/26, then 32 (really the same as the 82 which had about 5 different operators in competion Liverpool - Garston/Speke), then it became the 82A, to fit in with the renumberings so Aigburth Road was numbered all 82* in 2000, the 82B was run by Merseypride, the 82C/82E went as far as Garston, and the 82D went via Dale Street, so thats why it became the 82A as that was the only free letter, initially it didnt serve the airport.