Route History

[Phil]

RE: Route History

(28/06/2018 08:03)MTL0201 Wrote:  62, Bootle-Penny Lane has interesting history.
LCT era was 92 Page Moss-Pier Head via Kirkby-Fazakerley-Walton.
MPTE era, the PTE cut it to Page Moss-Walton, before diverting the 92 to Bootle, then extending it to Crosby at one end & Huyton the other with alternate journeys going to Halewood via Belle Vale, at d-Reg the 92 was diverted at Fazakerley to Penny Lane replacing the 99.

At d-reg Merseytravel introduced a 192 Walton-Halewood replacing that section of the 92, think initially operated by Crosville, until Crosville closed Liverpool depot down, Merseybus introduced the 217 Pier Head-Halewood via Kirkby as a daytime replacement of the 192, 192 still operated eve & sun, when eve & sun 217 initially was Pier Head-Kirkby

Meanwhilst the main 92 went unchanged since d-reg, until Arriva brought MTL & renumbered it to 62, then a couple of years ago Arriva cut the route to Bootle North Park-Penny Lane.

Cracking post this. Thanks for sharing!

Growing up around Belle Vale in the early 90's, I always wondered why the Kirkby - Halewood service was given the number 192, when the 92 that I knew of (Crosby-Penny Lane) went nowhere near it.

It wasn't until I did a bit of internet digging that I found out about the pre de-reg 92 that is mentioned in the post above! Wasn't there also a 92A variation of the MPTE service that I seem to recall reading about? Not too sure.

I remember the first time I used the 92 was around 1997 to get to Crosby Marina. We caught a North Western National to Picton Clock on the 79 (I'm pretty sure it had Skelmersdale branding) and then what must have been a E*** WBG Alexander Olympian on the 92.
On the return journey, it was an Atlantean in the 10** series with very very threadbare and worn modular seating.

Can't remember what our return 79 bus was unfortunately. Saying that, it could have been a 14 or a 38!

Hope i haven't rambled on too long!