Route History

[Bevan Price]

RE: Route History
With recent mentions of LUT, the following list of their services may be of interest. Many services were jointly operated. often with nearby municipal operators. LUT active participation varied from 100% to zero, and I cannot remember the situation with every route. The list is based on the May 1961 timetable, and I have omitted some works services that had only limited numbers of journeys.

(J = Jointly operated with B = Bolton, L = Leigh, M = Manchester, Sa = Salford, SH = St. Helens, Wa = Warrington, W = Wigan (corporations, etc.) , NW = North Western Road Car, R = Ribble)

LUT had depots at Atherton (Howe Bridge), Hindley (Platt Bridge) & Swinton, plus a small base in Liverpool for some coach services.

1. Atherton - St. Helens (J - SH)
7. Westhoughton - Hindley via Daisy Hill
8. Salford Greengate - Bolton (J - B, Sa)
9. Manchester Victoria Bridge St.) - Monton Green - Walkden (J -Sa)
10. Salford Greengate - Eccles - Warrington (J - Sa)
11. Clifton - Eccles
12. Salford Greengate - Little Hulton - Bolton (J - B, Sa)
13. Farnworth - Ringley Bridge - Whitefield
14. Farnworth - Swinton - Patricroft.
15. Farnworth - Kearsley.
16. Leigh - Westhoughton - Horwich (J - B, L)
17. Pendlebury - Eccles
18. Leigh - Astley - Farnworth - Moses Gate (J - L)
19. Farnworth local.
20. Farnworth - Eccles - Cadishead / Hollins Green / Glazebrook.
23. Salford Greengate - Worsley (J - Sa)
25. Farnworth - Ringley Bridge - Radcliffe.
26. Salford Greengate - Astley - Leigh (J -L, Sa)
27. Boothstown - Little Hulton
28. Atherton - Tyldesley - Walkden
29. Shakerley -Tyldesley - Astley.
30/35. Atherton - Tyldesley - Astley.
31. Salford Greengate - Mount Skip (J - Sa)
32. Salford Greengate - Atherton - Wigan (J - Sa,W)
33. Walkden - Little Hulton
34. Little Hulton - Farnworth.
36. Newchurch - Irlam. (Sats. only)
37. Leigh - Croft. (J - L) (Sats. only)
38. Salford Greengate - Walkden - Hindley / Wigan (J -Sa)
39. Salford Greengate /Leigh - St. Helens - Liverpool (J - L, R, Sa, SH)
41. Bolton - Walkden - Eccles (J - B)
42. Bolton - Walkden (J - B)
43. Bolton - Farnworth (J - B)
44. Ashton - Newton - Warrington.
46. Leigh - Risley - Warrington. (J -L)
47. Leigh - Croft - Warrington (J -L)
48. Leigh - Lowton Lane Head (J -L)
49. Leigh - Newchurch. (4 per day Mon - Fri, 2 on Sats)
50. Bolton - Leigh - Newton - Warrington (J -B,L)
51. Leigh - Newton - Warrington. (J - B,L)
(50 was a 2 hourly extension of 51 to/from Bolton)
52. Leigh - Earlestown - Ashton (J - L)
53. Warrington - Newton - Earlestown - Ashton
54. Leigh - Bickershaw - Wigan (J - L)
55. Leigh - Lowton - Golborne - Ashton - Billinge
56. Ashton - Garswood - Blackbrook
57. Leigh - Lowton - Golborne - Wigan. (J -L)
58. Leigh - Plank Lane - Golborne.(J -L)
(Extended to Wigan on Sats plus 1 Su trip)
59. Bolton - Westhoughton - Wigan.
60. Wigan - Golborne - Warrington.
61. Wigan - Golborne - Earlestown.
62. Newton - Earlestown - Ashton.
63. Newton - Earlestown via Wargrave.
64. Newton - Earlestown via Belvedere Road)
65. Earlestown - Burtonwood (J -SH)
67. Earlestown - St. Helens (J -SH)
68/68A. Flixton - Trafford park (J -M,NW)
69. Davyhulme - Trafford Park (J -M,NW)
72. Golborne - Downall Green - Ashton Simms Road.
74. Golborne - Ashton - Garswood.
76. Warrington - Winwick - Hermitage Green. (Limited service, WSO)
77. Warrington - Houghton Green (J -Wa)
78. Warrington - Fearnhead Cross (J -Wa)
(a few journeys ran to/from Burtonwood RAF base)
79. Longford - Warrington - Woolston
80. Warrington - Fearnhead Mill Farm (J -Wa)
81, Warrington - Woolston (J -Wa)
82. Leigh - Bolton (J -B,L)
83. Atherton - Worsley - Farnworth.
84. Leigh - Atherton - Mosley Common (J -L)
87/88. Eccles - Trafford Park.
309/319. Warrington - St. Helens - Southport
329. Warrington - Rainford.
344. Warrington - St. Helens.
(J - R, SH); I don't remember LUT ever operating beyond Rainford.
320 Wigan - Ashton - St. Helens - Liverpool. (J - R, SH, W).
LUT (Hindley depot), Ribble (Wigan & Liverpool depots), St. Helens & Wigan Corporations all provided buses at various times - I think there were periodic changes to balance the mileages worked by each operator.)
LUT was also a joint operator (but with no known active participation) in the St. Helens - Rainford services (51, 51A, 52, 53) and some Bolton Corporation services.

"Express services":-
X9. Oldham - Bolton - Blackpool.
X69. Hyde - Oldham - Blackpool - Cleveleys.
X79. Oldham - Rochdale - Bacup - Blackpool.
X89. Oldham - Rochdale - Edenfield - Blackpool.
(X9, 69 & 89 were summer only, Joint with NW, R, Standerwick & Yelloway)
X60 / X70. Manchester - Bolton - Blackpool.
(J - NW, R; X70 was occasional journeys via Westhoughton.)
X66. Manchester - Bolton - Blackburn. (J - B,R)
In addition, LUT participated in X97/98, Liverpool - Leeds / Newcastle, and summer only X99 Liverpool - Leeds - Harrogate - Middlesbrough.