Stagecoach MCSL - Gillmoss Depot

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RE: Stagecoach Merseyside - Gillmoss Depot

(16/10/2014 21:34)507009 Wrote:  Using 'Aintree Hospital' will cause further confusion as people are bound to board the bus thinking it goes to Aintree, when in fact it goes nowhere close. Aintree village is about a mile north of the hospital, so 'Fazakerley' is a good compromise and the more familiar name for the vast majority of Liverpudlians.

With modern displays, or even roller blinds, surely the solution is simple: Fazakerley (Aintree Hospital)

I remember many years ago my dad, who was a conductor at Litherland depot, telling me an amusing tale of a guy boarding the first 55 from the Old Haymarket one foggy winter's morning, paying his fare and disappearing upstairs for a smoke.
As he was getting off at the then terminus he asked my dad how far it was to the factory.
"What factory?" asked my dad.
"The one where they make the new Anglia," came the reply.

In those days the 55's outer terminus was FORD.