Diamond Bus North West

[Nicholas]

RE: South Lancs Travel
Chris, I suppose the 319 has been mentioned more than the other services due to the number of members that live / travel in the St Helens area. To be perfectly honest, the current timetable is still a significant improvement on what was available when it was run by Stagecoach and you must be commended for managing to do this.

As for the other services, there are some very good improvements, although the timings on the 126 do appear a little tight! I suppose that's why the third bus is being deployed on Saturdays. One thing that gives the service more of a chance on a Sunday is it provides better provision for workers, giving people a little more time at the tail ends of the day - previous attempts have seen the first bus arrive at something like 11:50.

I'm curious about the 634 being reinstated onto The Grove. Is this down to requests from locals? Whenever I have been in that area (I used to pass through that part of Ince a lot in my last job), nobody has ever got on or off on that bit of route.

I think the 685 will have be overlooked though, given its a transfer of part of the 557 onto it. Some interesting new links though, and does reinstate a Farnworth to Tyldesley / Atherton through bus.