Route History

[enrag2000]

RE: Route History

(27/01/2013 20:47)Bevan Price Wrote:  From 29th June 1955.

Following the opening of the new railway bridge on Alder Lane, near the Fiddle Inn, services between Warrington and Burtonwood followed what is now the current 329 route, except that the Warrington terminus was Arpley Bus Station.

309. Warrington - St. Helens - Bickerstaffe Lane Ends - Ormskirk - Southport.
319. Warrington - St. Helens - Barrow Nook - Ormskirk - Southport.
329. Warrington - St. Helens - Rainford.
344. Warrington - St. Helens.

140 continued to run via Bold Heath & Marshalls Cross.

These services continued virtually unchanged for many years but the summer extra Southport service (half-hourly instead of hourly) was withdrawn around 1970. This had been worked by extending the hourly 329 Rainford journeys which required two extra buses, normally one from St Helens Corp and one from Ribble, although in some years one operator worked both the duties in order to balance out the joint service mileage quotas.