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More Light on Merseyside Transport

4th February 1955
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\/VOUR article on bus services serving Merseyside was OUR interesting. May I, however, make several corrections:—

(1) During the summer months the Western and Southern National Companies' "Royal Blue" service comes daily from the South Coast, making at least 19 operators.

(2) There are only two services from Pier Head to Prescot. Crosville route 119 operates direct and the three routes operating under number 116 of Crosville provide a very circuitous service. Routes 116 and 116a take 55 min. and route 116b 43 mm., compared with 35 min. on route 119.

The Liverpool Corporation Passenger Transport service terminates at South Castle Street, farther inland and, except for the city centre, covers the same route as 119.

Ribble, L.U.T., Leigh C.T., Salford C.T., St. Helens C.T. and Wigan C.T. operate routes 39, 31 and 320 as combined services between Liverpool—Prescot—St. Helens. This follows route 116 to Edge Hill and crosses to follow route 119. Except for these three services, all buses pick up And set down anywhere en route between Liverpool—Prhcot. The 119 continues to Rainhill and certain buses to Warrington. Route 116 and 10 (L.C.P.T.) terminate at Prescot.

(3) The Speke—St. Helens service is provided by Crosville and St. Helens C.T., not Ribble and St. Helens. Ribble do hold the licence in conjunction with the others, but they operate no buses and their name is omitted from both Crosville and St. Helens roadside tune-tables. The last Ribble time-table I saw did not even acknowledge that the route existed.

(4) The picture alleged to be of two L.C.P.T. Leylands is wrong. The lower bus is a Crosville on a service that has always been Crosville. It is the successor to the Garston—Widnes—Warrington service. Liverpool C.P.T. do not operate farther than some eight miles from the city centre. Prescot is the farthest route from the city and is about 10 miles from Warrington.

I was surprised that your writer did not include the Wirral Peninsula as "Merseyside "—it usually is. Here he would have found, however, except for the municipal services of Birkenhead and Wallasey Corporations, a complete Crosville monopoly.

The agreements between Liverpool and the various companies differ. Routes 39, 317, 320 do not carry passengers point to point within the city. All Crosville routes, however, pick up and set down anywhere, with a 5d. minimum in the centre of the city. In the outskirts they often operate the only bus service between certain points and in some cases from the city. Indeed, sometimes their buses are almost empty until they enter the city boundary when, however, they fill up.

Liverpool 7. P. B. P. PREIST.

(Mr. Randall dealt with bus operation in the Wirral Peninsula in The Commercial Motor on August 6, 1954.— ED.]

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