Route History

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RE: Route History
Going back to the 79, Crosville had a route H20 Pier Head Mann Island-Runcorn via the current Halton 14 & 79C, not sure when the H30 appeared may have been at D-reg, late 80s became H30/H31, when Skelhorne Street bus & coach station closed this merged with a North Western route[not sure what number], & extended to Thornton via Bootle-Waterloo-Crosby [come back to this later] again may have been early 90s but H30/H31 got cut Hough Green Farm-Runcorn renumbered to 30, that's the way it stayed until the 30 was extended back to Liverpool being merged with the 79C

Skelhorne Street bus & coach station closure a few Crosville/North Western routes were merged, it helped at the time the owners of North Western had brought some Crosville depots including Runcorn, some of the routes merged were

300/302 Southport-Warrington merged with H5
351 Ormskirk-Runcorn merged with H25
H30/H31 Runcorn-Thornton not sure what route they merged with
X5 Runcorn-Skelmersdale, merged with the X6
X8/X9 Chester-Banks merged with Crosville X7 & North Western X37 this was a joint Crosville/North Western service, X9 was a summer Sunday service divereting via Chester Zoo

Apart from X9, the Sunday services didn't operate as a through service, terminated in Liverpool City Centre

The rest of the North Western services were extended to either Penny Lane or Aigburth Vale, including the North Western 761 Blackpool-Liverpool which was extended to Aigburth Vale, Stagecoach Ribble who operated jointly with North Western diverted this to Central Bus Station instead