Old Liverpool Routes

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RE: Old Liverpool Routes

(20/06/2012 20:42)St Helens Rider Wrote:  The 195 at dereg ran Rainhill Stoops - Prescot - St Helens - St Helens Hospital.

It's interesting how the 10/10A have increased in frequency over the years. They were a new service at dereg (extension of 10 from Prescot and withdrawal of 7/8 St Helens - Prescot circulars). At dereg, the 10 was every 30 minutes daytime, hourly evenings/sundays, 10A was every 15 minutes daytime, 30 minutes evenings/sundays. The 110/210 ran early mornings although they ran until around lunch on Sundays. Merseybus had the contract initially but in January 1989, Halton Transport won the contract (as they had also quite a few Sunday Morning contracts) and mysteriously within a week Merseybus ran earlier journeys in competition with Halton's subsidised journeys which due to this action didn't last long. Was a strange time, deregulation was.

The 10 shared it's frequency with the 10C, the 10 was every hour on Evening & Sundays, but 10/10A/10C shared the frequency Prescot to Pier Head, there was also the 34/320 which operated beyond St Helens to Liverpool, 34 to Manchester, 34 was every hour in those days, remember waiting for it a few times at Newton Le Willows Station, had good connection with the stopper train from Liverpool