Route History

[Bevan Price]

RE: Route History
St. Helens Corporstion - the last timetable before St. Helens was dragged into Merseyside PTE on 1 April 1974.

Timetable No. 22, Undated, but probably late 1972 or early 1973.
The list includes a few changes made later in 1973.

1 St. Helens - Atherton.
2 St. Helens - Ashton
3. St. Helens - Haydock Manor Road.
3A. St. Helens - Blackbrook (Owls Nest).
3B. St. Helens - Haydock (Haydock Lane)
5. St. Helens - Eccleston (Stuart Rd.)
5B. St. Helens - Eccleston (Carmelite)
(5, 5B were infrequent, shopping hours only.)
5D. St. Helens Junction - Ackers Lane.
6. St. Helens Junction - St. Helens - Dentons Green. - Hard Lane
6A. St. Helens Junction - Dentons Green
7/8. St. Helens - Rainhill / Prescot circulars.
9. St. Helens - Rainhill - Prescot.
10. St. Helens - Toll Bar (no advertised journeys)
11. St. Helens - Portico.
12. St. Helens - Nutgrove
13 /13A / 13B. St. Helens - Chain Lane. (commenced 8 May 1972)
13 out & return via Blackbrook, Chain Lane;
13A out via Chain Lane, return via Merton Bank Rd.
13B out via Merton Bank Rd., return via Chain Lane
15. Parr - St. Helens - Knowsley Road - Eccleston - Dentons Green - St. Helens - Parr
16. Parr - St. Helens - Dentons Green - Eccleston - Knowsley Road - St. Helens - Parr
(Short workings :
15A. Parr - St. Helens
15D. Parr - Ackers Lane
16C. St. Helens - Dentons Green - Eccleston - Knowsley Rd. - St. Helens)
22. Eccleston Dodd Avenue - Bold Bridge Road
22A. Eccleston Dodd Avenue - Clock Face (Crawford St.)
(Extension Sutton to Bold / Clock Face commenced 21 Sept. 1969, replacing old 25 & 26)
23. Clinkham Wood (Kendal Drive) - Sutton Manor circular.
24. Clinkham Wood (Dalehead Place) - Sutton Manor circular.
(23 out via Sutton Leach, return via Toll Bar; 24 out via Toll Bar, return via Sutton Leach).
25. Clinkham Wood (Dalehead Place) - Sutton Manor via New St (Su a.m. only)
25B.St. Helens - Sutton Leach (Wheatsheaf) (occasional short workings)
26. St. Helens - New St. - Four Acre Lane (commenced 14 May 1973)
27. St. Helens - Sutton Library
27A. Eccleston Gillars Green - St. Helens - Sutton Library
28. St. Helens - Ravenhead (Royal Grove) (occasional, commenced 8 Dec. 1969)
35. St. Helens - Widnes (Town Hall) via Sutton Leach, Sutton Manor
(33. Direct route, peak hours only; 34 route variant in Widnes, no advertised journeys
37. St. Helens - Widnes (Town Hall) via St. Helens Junction (peak hours only)
(Joint with Widnes)
39. Liverpool - St. Helens - Tydesley / Manchester.
(Operated by LUT)
47. St. Helens - Rainford (Bridge Inn)
48. St. Helens - Rainford (Eagle & Child)
51. St. Helens - Rainford (Higher Lane / Old Lane)
51A. St. Helens - Rainford Junction via Higher Lane
52. St. Helens - Crank - Rainford Junction.
53. St. Helens - Rainford Junction (direct)
(47 to 53 all joint with Ribble & LUT, but all operated by St. Helens, effectively as short workings of 329)
55. St. Helens - Carr Mill (Broad Lane)
65. Burtonwood (Haley Rd. South) - Earlestown.
67. St. Helens - Burtonwood - Earlestown.
(Both operated by LUT)
79. St. Helens - Rainhill Stoops.
89. St. Helens - Speke.
(Joint with Crosville, Ribble)
90. St. Helens - Kirkby Station via Whiston, Prescot, Knowsley.
90A. St. Helens - Kirkby Trading Estate. (peak only)
93. St. Helens - Haresfinch - Prescot
(93A, peak to Cable Works via St. James Rd.; 95, peak hours to Rye Hey Factory)
96. St. Helens - Portico - Prescot Thomas Drive.
97. Moss Bank Brow - St. Helens - Prescot (Cross Lane)
97A, St. Helens - Grange Park.
97X. St. Helens - Prescot (Thomas Drive)
98. St. Helens - Sutton Heath - Grange Park.
99. St. Helens - Kings Moss
100. St. Helens - Kings Moss - Prescot (SSuO)
140, St. Helens - Warrington.
(Joint with Crosville, Warrington)
317. Wigan - Billinge - St. Helens - Liverpool (SO)
(Joint with Ribble)
317. St. Helens - Liverpool (South John Street).
320. Wigan - Ashton - St. Helens - Liverpool.
(Joint with LUT, Ribble, Wigan)
323. Wigan - Billinge - Rainford Junction.
(Joint with Ribble, Wigan)
309. Warrington - Southport via Bickerstaffe Lane Ends, Scarisbrick
319. Warrington - Southport via Barrow Nook, Scarisbrick.
329. Warrington - Rainford.
344. Warrington - St. Helens
(Joint with LUT, Ribble, all via Winwick, Burtonwood & Parr)
342. Billinge - Orrell Station - Wigan
352. St. Helens - Billinge - Wigan (direct)
362. St. Helens - Billinge - Orrell Station - Wigan
372. Billinge - Wigan via Tontine (occasional)
57/58. St. Helens - Billinge (Stork Inn)
57 via Green Leach Lane, 58 via Woodlands Rd. - handful of short workings on 352/362 route.
(Joint with Ribble, Wigan)


Workpeoples & other infrequent / irregular services:

4. Sutton (Cecil St. ) - St. Anne's Church (SuO)
14. Bold Bridge Rd. - Sutton Manor (Green Dragon) (SuO)
22B. St. Helens - Parr Trading Estate.
27B. Eccleston Gillars Green- Carmelite (SuO)
30. Finger Post - Sutton Manor Colliery via St. Helens Junction.
31. St. Helens - Parr -St Helens Junction -Bold Colliery
31A. St. Helens . Parr - St. Helens Junction - Sutton Manor Colliery.
36. St. Helens - Widnes (Everite Facrory, Derby Rd.)
40. St. Helens - Clock Face - Sankey (Header House)
42. St. Helens - Parr - Clock Face - Burtonwood Air Base.
(Both via Bold Heath, Sankey Bridges; joint with LUT, Ribble)
94. Sutton Manor - Prescot (Rye Hey Factory) via Rainhill.
101. St. Helens - Rye Hey Factory via Portico.
102. St. Helens - Rye Hey Factory via Rainhill.
103. St. Helens - Haydock, Mullard's Works
104. Clinkham Wood - Parr Trading Estate.
105. Ashton - Parr Trading Estate (Joint with LUT)
106. Sutton Manor (Forest Rd.) - Parr Trading Estate.
107. St. Helens - Bold Iron Works via Peasley Cross, St. Helens Junction
108. St. Helens - Ravenhead Glass Works
109. St. Helens - Huyton (Associated Biscuits)
110. St. Helens - Kirkby Trading Estate
111. St. Helens - Napier Factory.
112. St. Helens - Stopgate Lane
113. St. Helens - Littlewoods Factory.
114. St. Helens - Melling (B.I.C.C.)
(110, 114 most via Knowsley Rd., 111-113 via Dentons Green, then all via East Lancs, Rd.)
115/116. St. Helens - Rugby League ground (Knowsley Rd.) (Match days only)
200. St. Helens - Knowsley Safari Park (tour)

Schools services, numbered between 601 & 621 were shown in the timetable, but are not listed here. Some routes covered as many as 3 or 4 schools with just one or two return journeys.