Route History

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RE: Route History
Found a First Chester & Wirral overground magazine & timetable from summer 2003, this is when the Moreton RedRider depot was closed, routes then were
1 Chester-Liverpool
2 Ellesmere Port-Chester, peak hours extending to/from Little Sutton & Neston
3 Chester-Rivacre
4 Little Sutton-Stanney Grange/Chester
7 Ellesmere Port-Kendal Drive
10 Chester-Connah's Quay
11 Chester-Holywell
12/12A Chester-Connah's Quay
16 Chester-Salteny
17 Leasowe-Clatterbridge
22/22A Chester-West Kirby
36 Ellesmere Port-Runcorn
38 West Kirby-Poulton Lancelyn
39 West Kirby-Port Sunlight
41/42 Mill Park-Woodchurch
51 Chester-Plas Newton
53 Chester-Kingsway
71/72 Heswall-Woodside/Liverpool
75 Heswall Lower Village-Irby
92 Birkenhead-Beechwood

2 was an hourly frequency via the old C2 Ellesmere Port-Chester, peak hour one journey Ellesmere Port-Neston, returning to Chester, in the morning peak, evening peak one journey Chester-Little Sutton

4 was 20 minutes Little Sutton-Stanney Grange, extending hourly to Chester via Stoak

10/11/12/12A were part of the Flintshire County Council Lynx branding scheme, think joint services with Arriva

17 was renumbered from 117, forgot about the Leasowe circle route

22/22A, every 30 minutes West Kirby-Heswall, then hourly Neston via Parkgate, then 2 hourly 22 via Ness & Burton, 22A via Hinderton & Willaston, both routes served Mollington Village

38/39 every 15 minutes West Kirby-Bebington Station, then 30 minutes to Poulton Lancelyn[38] Port Sunlight[39]

51 was every 9 minutes in the peak, 11 minutes off peak

71/72 only a couple of peak hour journeys extended to Liverpool, mostly Woodside-Heswall