Route History

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RE: Route History
Wigan depot transferred to North Western September, 86 a few weeks before d-reg, along with the rest of Ribble's Merseyside & West Lancashire depots

The reason Ribble ran the 89s, Crosville deemed the 89 was too uneconomical to run when they moved from Edge Lane to Love Lane, so transferred there share to Ribble

Indeed after d-reg there was a 3 month setting in period, companies couldn't make changes until 25th January 87 onwards.

The 107 City Centre-Prescot went via West Derby Road-Queens Drive, followed the 111[11 wasn't registered at first] to Page Moss then to Huyton via Kingsway-Huyton town centre-Whiston-Prescot, the 107 Prescot-Huyton was replaced by the Halton 61, when Halton extended the 61 to at first Huyton, then City Centre.

Merseytravel tenders threw up weird numberings at times, as the fares were different[Merseytravel continued with the former PTEs low fares policy on Merseytravel tenders] Merseytravel numbered the buses in the 100-250 series, although there was exceptions, most of the time ment +100 from the normal number, but there was complications.

[there was already a 192 as explained in a different post] so Merseytravel numbered there tendered 92 to 219, again the 9 group of routes, as there was already a 109 Huyton-Pier Head later changed to Huyton-Stockbridge so Merseytravel 9 was numbered 129 with 9D numbered 139, Crosville H series was most affected by this H3 was 143, H6-H8 became 106-108, so tendered journeys for the Merseybus 6 became 116

North Western routes were affected as well, North Western kept the Ribble L series numbers so tendered journey's for L3 became 213, L21 became bizarrely 131[[ i say bizarrely as that ment there was 2, 131s in the City Centre as there was also a Merseytravel tendered 131 from 431, Liverpool-New Brighton] L81 became 151.

Merseytravel started tendering some of the 5xx series Merseymini routes, Merseytravel numbered them in the 4xx series, which was normally used for rapidride routes.

Actually come to that, my 1988 bus map shows there was a couple of North Western circulars 401/402 & 403/404 these were
401/402 City City Centre-Huyton Circular via whole of the current 8 & 9 to Pilch Lane via Woodfall Heath & Huyton, then Thingwall Hall Drive & Thomas Lane & via the 61 to City Centre
403/403 City Centre-Lodge Lane Circular via 86 to Upper Parliament Street, 26/27 to Kensington & 10 to City Centre