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What’s your favourite bus route in Liverpool?

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The old 82c from St Mary’s Road by the church into town…. Or the limited stop 500.
All a long time ago. Is there still an 82c?
 
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List of all Liverpool area bus routes from Febuary 1977.

1/1A/1C/1E Dingle-Seaforth-Netherton. MT
3 Dingle-Walton. MT
4/5 Woolton South Castle Street. MT
6A/6C/6D Huyton-\borwing Park-Pier Head. MT
9/9A/9C/9D Lyme Cross/Knowsley/Longview-Pier Head. MT
10/10A/10B/10D Prescot-Pier Head. MT

11 Huyton-South Castle Street. MT
12/12A/12C Page Moss/Cantril Farm-Pier Head. MT
13 Tower Hill-Kirkby Admin. MT
14A/14C/14D Croxteth/Gillmoss-Pier Head. MT
15/15A Kirkby Admin-Pier Head. MTI
15D Tower Hill-Pier Head. MT
15E Kirkby Admin-Pier Head. MTI
16 Seaforth-Pier Head. MT
17C/17D Fazakerley/Broad Lane-Pier Head. MT
18A/18B Kirkby Admin-Pier Head. MTI
18C/18D Fazakerley/Lower Lane-Pier Head. MT
19/19A/19C/19E Kirkby Admin-Pier Head. MT
20 Aigburth-Fazakerley. MT

25 Aigburth-Walton. MT
26/27 Sheil Road Circular. MT
28 Netherton-Old Haymarket. JS
29 Fazakerley Hospital-Crosby. RI
30/30A Crosby/Netherton-Pier Head. RI

31/32/ New Brighton/Liscard-Liverpool. MT
33 Everton-Seaforth. MTI
34/34C Longview/Cantril Farm-Seaforth. MTI
35 Northwood-Seaforth. MTI
36 Kirkby Admin-Seaforth. MTI
37 Croxteth-Seaforth. MTI
38 Penny Lane-Seaforth. MTI
39 Liverpool-Manchester. JS
40 Huyton-Pier Head. MT

42 Penny Lane-Edge Lane. MTI
43 Cantril Farm-Edge Lane. MTI
44/44D/44E Northwood/Knowsley-Pier Head. MT
44A/44B Kirkby Admin-Pier Head. MTI
45 Longview-Edge Lane. MTI
46 Penny Lane-Walton. MT
47 Croxteth- Edge Lane. MTI
48/49 Bootle Circular. JS

52/W52 Sefton-Walton. JS
53/53A/53B Netherton-Black Bull. JS
54/54A/W54 Lydiate/Netherton/Aintree-Bootle. JS
55/55A Netherton/Ford-Old Haymarket/Pier Head. JS
56 Netherton-Old Haymarket. JS
57/57A Netherton/Orrel-Old Haymerket/Pier Head. JS
58 Litherland-Old Haymarket/Pier Head. JS
59/W59 Old Roan/Netherton-Old Haymarket/Pier Head. JS
60/60D Dingle-Bootle. MT

61 Aigburth-Seaforth. MT
62/62A/63 Speke-Kirkby Civic Centre. MTI
64 Kirkby Civic Centre-Edge Lane. MTI
65/65B/65C Speke/Netherley/Halewood-Edge Lane. MTI
66/66B Garston-Netherley. MT
67 Old Swan-Seaforth. MT
68 Aigburth-Seaforth. MT
70 Page Moss-Huyton. MTI

72 Hunts Cross-Pier Head. MT
73 Woolton-Central Bus Station/Pier Head
73A Netherley-Central Bus Station/Pier Head. MT
75 Huyton-Sir Thomas Street-Pier Head. MT
76 Pier Head-Prescot. CR
77/77A Speke-Hillfoot- Springwood Rd-Penny Lane-Pier Head. MTI
78/78A Halewood/Hunts Cross-Pier Head
79/79A/79B/79C/79D/79E Netherley/Lee Park/Belle Vale-Pier Head. MT
80 Speke-Pier Head. MT
80 A, B, C; Fords, Dunlops, Edwards Ln. (mornings and evening)MTI
81/81B/81D Speke-Bootle. MT
82/82B/82C Speke-Pier Head. MT
83 Speke-Halewood. MTI
85/85A Speke-Garston-Pier Head. MT
86/86A/86B Pier Head, Renshawe St, Upper Parl. Smithdown Rd. Allerton, Garston MT
87 (Reverse 86 route)
88/88A Garston-Halewood. MT
89/89F St Helens-Speke. JS
90 St Helens-Kirkby Station. JS

91 Northwood-Long Lane. MTI
91A Northwood-Gillmoss. MT
92/92C Huyton-Crosby. MT
92A Kirkby-Pier Head. MT
92B Northwood-Pier Head. MT
93 Kirkby Admin-Pier Head. MTI
94 Dingle-Kirkby Admin. MTI
95/95A Gillmoss-Seaforth. MTI
95B Netherton-Gillmoss. MT/RI Joint Industrial Service
96 Kirkby Admin-Black Bull MT/RI Joint Industrial Service
97/97A Page Moss-Kirkby Admin. MTI
97C Cantril Farm-Kirkby Admin. MTI
98/98C Huyton-Cantril Farm-Gillmoss. MTI
99/99A/99B Penny Lane-Lower Lane-Kirkby Admin. MT
99C Penny Lane-Gillmoss. MTI
100 Cityride. MT
 
L303 silver bullet.
This was the original trial Model of a mainly Aluminium bodied bus - given the salt the Corpy threw around, probably a good idea.
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Probably more Info than you wanted - but the link leads where the link leads lol

A40 was one of only two buses to be bodied by Saunders Roe (SARO) for Liverpool Corporation. SARO was a firm from Beaumaris, on the Isle of Anglesey, that had its origins in boat building but had got involved with the manufacture of aircraft during the Second World War. During the early 1950s, SARO diversified into building bus bodies and even secured a large order with London Transport for double deck bodies on RT chassis.

A39 & A40 were part of the order for 100 AEC Regent IIIs, the other 98 receiving Crossley bodies (60 of them completed at Corporation's Edge Lane Works). All these buses were fitted with the AEC A218 9.6 litre engines and synchromesh gearboxes.

The SARO bodies were built mainly out of aluminium instead of the usual steel and wood that most builders used at this time. This method of construction gave a weight saving of almost a ton compared to the Crossley bodied examples, and did not suffer from as much body corrosion as the steel bodies - but their initial purchase cost was greater.

A40 entered service from Prince Alfred Road garage in November 1954 and became known as "The Silver Bullet" due to the fact that it was entirely unpainted (not because of its top speed!).

A further 17 buses (on both AEC and Leyland chassis) were delivered over the next few years in this mainly unpainted form as part of an ongoing experiment to compare the cost savings of not painting buses. Other operators around Britain also tried out the unpainted look but it was soon found that the initial savings on not painting the bus were soon exhausted by the additional effort in keeping the vehicles clean and presentable, especially when repairing accident damage.

When new, A40 was totally unpainted externally (apart from its wheels) but, to improve its appearance and to make it more visible in the fog at the time, it received a green band between the decks in 1956. Around the same time it also lost the front upper saloon opening windows.

In May 1964 A40 was transferred to Edge Lane garage where it remained until being transferred to Speke in November 1970. It passed to the Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive (MPTE) on its formation in December 1969. A40 was the last remaining former Liverpool Corporation AEC Regent III still in service when it was withdrawn at the beginning of May 1974. The vehicle's significance was acknowledged by the MPTE, and A40 became the first of many vehicles to be donated to the Mersey & Calder BPG by the MPTE, a practice continued right up to the last days of the MPTE owning vehicles​

 

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