Route History

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RE: Route History

(21/11/2012 22:46)Bevan Price Wrote:  And now, Wigan Corporation Transport Department routes from September 1969. Some infrequent schools / works services are omitted.

1. Wigan - Beech Hill.
2. Wigan - Ashton in Makerfield via Wigan Road
2A. Wigan - Ashton in Makerfield via Old Road.
3. Wigan - Hindley (Castle Hill Estate)
3A. Wigan - Hindley (Whiteside Avenue)
3D. Wigan - Lower Ince
3E. Wigan - Belle Green Lane
4. Wigan - Evan House Farm.
5. Wigan - Standish (Graham Farm)
5A. Wigan - Standish (Pepper Lane)
5B. Wigan - Standish (Bradley Mills) (infrequent)
7. Wigan - Abbey Lakes
8. Wigan - Bleachworks
8A. Wigan - Bleachworks - Red Rock (infrequent)
8B. Occasional peak hour variant of 8.
9. Wigan - Norley Hall.
10. Wigan - Worsley Mesnes - Stubshaw Cross.
10B. Wigan - Hawkley Hall.
10C. Wigan - Worsley Mesnes.
12. Wigan - Abram (Crankwood Road)
13. Wigan - Bickershaw
14. Wigan - New Springs.
15. Wigan - Bolton via Aspull / Wingates.
(Joint with Bolton)
16. Wigan / Blackrod - Horwich
17. Wigan - Blackrod via Haigh.
18. Wigan - Blackrod via Scot Lane.
18A. Blackrod - Horwich.
19. Wigan - Windy Arbour
19A Wigan - New Houses
(joint with Ribble & St. Helens)
20. Standish - Orrell Post / Kitt Green (infrequent)
21. Wigan - Kitt Green via City Road
21C. Wigan - Kitt Green via Bell Lane.
22. Wigan - Marsh Green.
23. Wigan - Worsley Hall.
24. Wigan - Bottling Wood.
25. Wigan - Beech Hill.

Several routes had some journeys that were linked across Wigan Town Centre, changing route numbers at the town centre:
1 with 2/2A;
3/3A with 4;
5/5A with 7;
12 with 22/23;
13 with 23;
14 with 25;

Joint services
With LUT : 32
With LUT & Leigh : X85
With Ribble: 333 /343
With Ribble & St. Helens: 342 /352 /352, plus St. Helens local services 51A, 52, 53 & 55.
With LUT, Ribble & St. Helens : 320

X85. Wigan - Culcheth - Irlam
(rail replacement service for the Wigan Central branch)
320 Wigan - Liverpool
333 / 343 Wigan - Wrightington / High Moor
342 Wigan - Billinge.
352 /362 Wigan - St. Helens.
352 Wigan - St. Helens - Widnes (Su only)

Apart from 320, and (I think) 333 /343, I don't think that Wigan provided any vehicles for these joint services (although it could possibly have provided some duplicates on 352 / 362 when Wigan RLFC were playing at St. Helens).

They where known to operate at times on X85's, there was an issue of buses from 1972 on Chat Moss that shows a Wigan Titan PD2 on the X85.