Fifteen years since the sale of MTL to Arriva

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RE: Fifteen years since the sale of MTL to Arriva

(25/02/2015 09:48)Barney Wrote:  There is no way of knowing what bus operations across Merseyside would now look like if Arriva had not bought out MTL. When deregulation occurred in 1986 the new company, Merseybus, immediately closed Litherland, PAR and Garston depots in Liverpool and Seaview Road on the Wirral. A few years later Edge Lane and Walton were also closed. Ribble rationalised its depots with the closure of Aintree, Skelhorne Street, Southport and its out-station at Ormskirk and Crosville ceased to exist. For better or worse, Arriva simply continued the business plan its predecessors had started in an effort to cut costs and increase profitability.

I understand what you say Barney but I was just making the point that had Arriva not taken over MTL they would have struggled to serve Skelmersdale with just Bootle garage. Also I cannot remember an out station at Ormskirk, as far as I remember Ormskirk closed when Skem opened in 1974.