Recent content by PaulWC

At the time of deregulation in 1986, the 94 had a couple of extensions beyond Wrexham, both very short lived. One was to Chester (no idea how often), and on Mondays and Fridays one journey was extended to Crewe. This was probably to connect with trains, but didn't last much further than 1987.

Interesting idea, re-using the TSW logo from the 1980's.

I know Crosville Wales diverted some of their Deeside services through Blacon but the only major outbreak of competition was around 1996 when St Helens based South Lancs Transport started high frequency minibus services on several Chester City routes. It didn't last very long and they were soon...

Interesting site. The About Us page names the 'Lethers Travel Team' - https://www.letherstravel.com/about These are apparently the same people who work for Cross Street Cars in Swindon, except that Simon Lether is now called Andy De Witt- https://www.crossstreetcars.co.uk/about In fact, a...

http://foam.merseyforest.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Northwich-Woodlands-Map.pdf It's not that far really - from Anderton to Northwich town centre is only about a 30 minute walk. I did the walk from Marbury to Northwich via Neumanns Flash a couple of weeks ago which is really nice, and...

There is the option to get the 1600 to Northwich and wait for the 1645 back to Warrington, but its far from ideal. There is also a lovely walk from Anderton through the Northwich Woodlands that brings you out in Carey Park at the back of Asda and the town centre.

Most of the signs in Cheshire were Crosville's and in 1986 the county council simply added a Cheshire Bus vinyl on to them, usually over the 'Bus Stop' wording. By the 90s, Crosville was gone from most of the county and the council replaced all the signs with their own, the one pictured in...

Is the X99 just for the Warrington Disability Awareness Day at Walton Hall on July 16th? I know a few years back it ran on summer Sundays, but I thought it was just for the one day event now?

PMT operated it on under contract on Sundays around 1987, as well as a couple of the Macclesfield locals.

I was on the 10:07 from Chester to Crewe and can confirm that before it set off from Chester, it had arrived in pretty full with what looked like a large group of 15 or 20 people travelling together. The bus I was on was fairly full but emptied at Nantwich, although I did notice when we were...

Pre Covid the website used to list services by area, so the Cheshire and Stoke services were listed separately. Something similar would be helpful and cut down on the couple of duplications - maybe even add a network map like the one for Chaserider.

Given the 3 used to run to Leighton via Broad Street it might be confusing to some to run it to the hospital via the 6 route as a number 3. Not that seems to bother D&G who are re-routing their 12 to the same route as the 6 but keeping it as a number 12.

Quick clarification on the old PMT depots in Crewe. At deregulation in 1986, they won a lot of work off Crosville, and they opened a site on Lockitt Street, just off Mill Street. They very quickly moved to the Crewe Gates Industrial Estate which was a much bigger site. By strange coincidence...

I can see D&G running the 31 hourly as it currently does to Northwich but running a short from the Bus Station to Leighton Hospital to give a 30 minute frequency along Underwood Lane. Or, possibly turning one of the 12's into a 6 so there's still a bus every 30 mins to Shavington, but only one...

We went to London from Warrington in September with Flixbus, and the seat reservations were a total waste of time. On the bus going the driver didn't show any interest in making sure anybody sat in the correct seats, and on the way back, the seat numbers didn't match the reservations. The driver...