Route History

[Bevan Price]

RE: Route History
And whilst the old timetables are temporarily out of the box, Warrington Corporation Transport Department, March 1972. Some of the services were linked across the town centre. The town centre terminals or timing points were usually Central Station or Buttermarket Street, but a few joint services used Arpley Bus Station.

1. Westy - Warrington - Poplars Avenue
2. Dallam - Warrington - Statham Avenue via Fisher Avenue
2A. Ditto, but via Poplars Avenue
3. Westy - Warrington - Penketh.
4. Dallam - Warrington - Padgate Greenwood Crescent
4A. Occasional variant to Padgate Statham Avenue via Poplars Ave.
5. Warrington - Walton Whitefield Rd. via Stockton Heath
5A. Warrington - Bewsey.
6. Warrington - Grappenhall via Stockton Heath.
7. Loushers Lane - Warrington - Alder Lane
8. Warrington - Blackbrook.
11. Warrington - Hatton via Stockton Heath.
12. Warrington - Appleton Thorn or Arley.
13. Warrington - Walton via Chester Road
13A. Warrington - Gainsborough Road
14. Warrington - Walton Stag Inn via Stockton Heath.
15 /16. Westy - Warrington - Great Sankey circular
(15 out via Lingley Green & Meeting Lane; 16 opposite way round Great Sankey loop.)

Joint services with Crosville:
35. Warrington - Lymm Church via Massey Brook. (M-F only, sparse service)
37. Warrington - Altrincham.
38. Warrington - Altrincham via Statham, Warburton.
40. Warrington - Altrincham - Broadheath.
42. Warrington - Lymm - Warbuton - Urmston.
43 to 46. Warrington - Northwich
43 via Barnton
44 via Acton Bridge & Weaverham.
45 via Lostock.
46 via Antrobus.
The Crosville share had previously been with North Western Road Car.

Joint vith LUT
77. Warrington (Arpley Station) - Fearnhead Cross - Houghton Green
78. Warrington - Fearnhead Parkfields Lane
(some peak hour journeys to/from Sankey (RAF depot)
79. Longford - Warrington - Woolston Runnymede Road.
80. Warrington - Fearnhead cross - padgate Training college.
81. Warrington - Padgate - Woolston Dam Lane.

Joint with Crosville & St. Helens Corporation:
140: Warrington - Bold heath - St. Helens

Of course, the large housing developments around Birchwood came later than 1972.