Route History

[Bevan Price]

RE: Route History
St. Helens Corporation Transport.
Timetable No.1, February 1947.

Trolley Bus Services.
1 St. Helens - Ashton - Atherton.
(Joint with South Lancashire Transport)
2 St. Helens - Ashton in Makerfield.**
3. Eccleston (Ackers Lane) - St. Helens - Haydock (Rams Head)
4. Moss Bank - St. Helens - Parr (Platt St.)
5. Eccleston (Ackers Lane) - St. Helens (Sefton Place)
5A. Eccleston (Ackers Lane) - St. Helens - Parr Library.
6. Dentons Green - St. Helens - St. Helens Junction.
7. St. Helens - Rainhill - Prescot - St. Helens.
8. St. Helens - Prescot - Rainhill - St. Helens.
9. St. Helens - Toll Bar **
10. St. Helens - Rainhill Mental Hospital **
11. St. Helens - Portico **
(** - Occasional short workings only.)

Motor Bus Services.

Services marked $$ were infrequent / irregular and mostly intended for workpeople.

20. Eccleston (Stuart Rd) - Knowsley Rd. - St. Helens - Sutton Manor (Walkers Lane)
21. Eccleston (Griffin Inn) - Knowsley Rd. - Sutton Manor (Walkers Lane)
22. Eccleston (Broadway) - Dentons Green - Sutton Manor (Walkers Lane)
23. St. Helens (Victoria Square) - Sutton Manor (Forest Road)
24. St. Helens - Sutton Manor Colliery $$
25. St. Helens - Bold (Bridge Rd.) via Peasley Cross, New St. & Sutton Leach.
26. St. Helens - Clock Face (Gorsey Lane) via Gaskell St., Sutton Oak & Gerards Lane.
27. St. Helens - Clock Face (Crawford St.) via Peasley Cross & New St.
28. St. Helens - Clock Face Colliery via Marshalls Cross $$
29. Finger Post - Clock Face Colliery via Gaskell St., St. Helens Junction. $$
30. Finger Post - Sutton Manor Colliery via Gaskell St., St. Helens Junction $$
31. St. Helens - Sutton Leach (Research Factory) via Marshalls Cross $$
35. St. Helens (Victoria Sq.) - Widnes (Town Hall) via Sutton Leach & Sutton Manor.
(Joint with Widnes Corporation)
36. St. Helens - Widnes (Derby Rd.) via Marshalls cross, Clock Face Bridge. $$
37. St. Helens - Widnes (Derby Rd.) via Marshalls Cross & Bold Heath $$
39. Manchester - Leigh - St. Helens - Liverpool (Mount Pleasant)
(Joint with LUT, Leigh, Salford)
40. St. Helens - Warrington (Arpley Station) via Marshalls Cross & Bold Heath. $$
(Joint with LUT)
41. St. Helens - Warrington (Arpley Station) via St. Helens Junction, Clock Face, Burtonwood $$
42. St. Helens - Warrington (South Avenue) via Fleet Lane, Burtonwood & Sankey $$
43. St. Helens - Sankey (B.R.D.) via Fleet Lane, Burtonwood $$
44. St. Helens - Sankey (Tinkers Hall) via Fleet Lane, Burtonwood $$
45, St. Helens - Sankey (B.R.D.) via St. Helens Junction, Clock Face, Burtonwood)$$
46. St. Helens - Burtonwood (B.M.E,) via Fleet Lane. $$
(41 to 46 were mainly to serve the USAF/RAF base at Burtonwood)
51. Rainford (Wheatsheaf) - St. Helens Colliery via Canal St. $$
55. St. Helens - Haresfinch - Carr Mill (Cross Roads)
(Joint with Ribble & Wigan, but entirely operated by St. Helens)

65. Burtonwood - Earlestown.
67. St. Helens - Burtonwood - Earlestown.
(Joint with LUT)
72. Toll Bar - Lea Green Colliery $$
73. Sutton Heath (Boars Head) - St. Helens - Clinkham Wood (Windermere Avenue)
74. Lea Green Colliery - St. Helens - Clinkham Wood $$ (both via North Rd., East Lancs Rd.)
75. Far Moor (Grapes Inn) - Billinge - St. Helens Colliery - Lea Green Colliery. $$
76. Billinge (Stork Inn) - St. Helens / Lea Green Colliery via Eltonhead Rd. $$
77. Finger Post - Peasley Cross - Lea Green Colliery via Gaskell St.,Eltonhead Rd $$
79. St. Helens - Lea Green Colliery via Peasley Cross, Eltonhead Rd. $$
89. St. Helens - Huyton - Speke (Hale Rd or Dunlops Factory)
(From 1946 until 1947, alternate weekday journeys ran to Garston instead of Speke, as service 90)
91. St. Helens - Prescot Cable Works via Rainhill. $$
92. St. Helens - Prescot Cable Works via Portico. $$
93. St. Helens - Haresfinch - Dentons Green - Eccleston - Prescot (Hope St.)
94. Dentons Green - Prescot Cable Works $$
95. St. Helens - Portico - Whiston - Cronton Colliery $$
W7. Wigan - St. Helens - Cronton Colliery $$
(Joint with Ribble & Wigan)
96. Sutton Manor - Rainhill - Prescot Cable Works $$
97. St. Helens (Bridge St.) - Grange Park (Penrith Rd.)
98. St. Helens - Peasley Cross - Sherdley Rd. - Grange Park (Penrith Rd.) $$
99. St. Helens - Kings Moss (Colliers Arms) (SSuX)
100. St. Helens - Kings Moss - Rainford - Gillars Grren Lane - Prescot (SSuO)
(100 had been suspended between 1939 and 1946 because of World War 2.)
101. St. Helens - Prescot (Rye Hey Factory) via Portico. $$
102. St. Helens - Prescot (Rye Hey Factory) via Rainhill $$
105. St. Helens - Bold Colliery via Parr $$
106. St. Helens - Clock Face Colliery via Parr, Bold Colliery $$
107. St. Helens - Bold Iron Works via Peasley Cross, St. Helens Junction $$
108. St. Helens - Bold Colliery via Peasley Cross, St. Helens Junction $$
110. St. Helens - Kirkby (Taylor Woodrows) $$
111. St. Helens - Napiers Factory $$
112. St. Helens - Stopgate Lane $$
113. St. Helens - Littlewoods Factory (Walton Hall Ave.) $$
(110 - 113 via Bleak Hill, East Lancs Rd.)
114/115. St. Helens RFC (Knowsley Rd) - LMS Station (114) or Ormskirk St. (115)
(Match days only)
309/319. Warrington - St. Helens - Ormskirk / Southport
(309 via Bickerstaffe Lane Ends, 319 via Barrow Nook, both via Bescar)
329. Warrington - St. Helens - Rainford (Wheatsheaf)
(Joint with Ribble & LUT)
317. St. Helens - Liverpool (Mount Pleasant)
320. Wigan - Ashton - St. Helens - Liverpool
(Joint with Ribble, LUT & Wigan)
342. Billinge - Orrell Station - Wigan
352/362. St. Helens - Billinge - Orrell - Wigan
(352 direct, 362 via Orrell Station)
(Joint with Ribble & Wigan)