Old Liverpool Routes

[St Helens Rider]

RE: Old Liverpool Routes
The 195 at dereg ran Rainhill Stoops - Prescot - St Helens - St Helens Hospital.

It's interesting how the 10/10A have increased in frequency over the years. They were a new service at dereg (extension of 10 from Prescot and withdrawal of 7/8 St Helens - Prescot circulars). At dereg, the 10 was every 30 minutes daytime, hourly evenings/sundays, 10A was every 15 minutes daytime, 30 minutes evenings/sundays. The 110/210 ran early mornings although they ran until around lunch on Sundays. Merseybus had the contract initially but in January 1989, Halton Transport won the contract (as they had also quite a few Sunday Morning contracts) and mysteriously within a week Merseybus ran earlier journeys in competition with Halton's subsidised journeys which due to this action didn't last long. Was a strange time, deregulation was.