Route History

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RE: Route History
The de-reg 510 was originally the 10X which Merseybus extended to Wigan when they did the route/garage changes in July 1991. The original 10/10A/10C which were shared between Green Lane and St Helens got revised in 1991 with St Helens operating the 10's which still went to St Helens only and the hourly 10C's to Prescot getting withdrawn. The 10A's went to Green Lane and this arrangement stayed until Arriva took over MTL in 2000.

The 10X was the new service which was limited stop and similar to the 320 although didn't it do a different route from St Helens to Wigan than the 320? In 1992 it got extended to Bolton and fairly soon after that got renumbered 510 with the 10 service being extended to Bolton also around the end of 1992.

GM Buses (GMN) upped the frequency of the 320's to 20 minutes daytime and not 100% about this but didn't they run additional 34's between St Helens and Manchester too?

When the St Helens operations became Lancashire Travel the 10's got extended into Manchester, again unsure of the route the took but I know it wasn't the same GM Buses 8's did from Bolton and Salford into Manchester and these arrangements stayed until MTL agreed that deal with GMN and GMS in 1995.

Lancashire Travel for approximately a year or two ran the 10's to Ashton in Makerfield a hourly 34 between Liverpool and Leigh and the 510's to Wigan before the 10's got scaled back to St Helens the 34's from St Helens to Leigh and the 510's got withdrawn.

Interesting times but traffic and other operational considerations will never see routes like these again.