Route History

[St Helens Rider]

RE: Route History
Unsure about pre-dereg but after dereg I may be able to help:

Started as the 141 Mon-Sun all day Merseytravel service operated by Merseybus. Route differed from the present route as it ran via Peasley Cross Lane, left onto Sutton Road then as present daytime route as far as Earlestown then via Belvedere Road/Queens Drive to Newton Station.

Then in October 1988, Merseybus commercialised the daytime to become 41 with the evening & Sunday service remaining 141. The service was re-routed via Bradleigh Estate as Shearings had by this time started their 51/51P which service the Belvedere Road/Queens Drive area.

Sometime in the early 90's, Merseybus withdrew their daytime 41. South Lancs picked up the Merseytravel daytime 141 replacement. It was at this time that the daytime service was re-routed via Jackson Street with the evening and sunday re-routed via Robins Lane and St Helens Hospital.

I do remember for a short spell in the mid 90's Liverbus running the evening & Sunday 141 using mostly Nationals.

Again at some point in the 90's, South Lancs (may have been owned by British Bus by this time) commercialised the daytime and again it was renumbered 41.

I think this roughly brings this to the early 2000's.