Route History

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RE: Route History
Thinking back to the Merseybus 52/62 St Helens-Wigan[not sure if Merseybus had a 72], which competed with the North Western 352/362/372, i think the Merseybus service started in 88, when North Western bared the use of saveaways on there buses, due to row with Merseytravel how payment for allowing use of Merseytravel issued passes on North Western services were calculated, Merseybus started 52/62 to give saveaway coverage in Billinge, Merseybus started a few routes around then covering North Western routes in the Merseyside area to give saveaway coverage, the Merseybus 52/62 later Lancashire Travel service merged with the Arriva[which what North Western became] 352/362 service, after Arriva brought MTL