Service Changes
Major service changes across Merseyside September 2017
Changes from 3rd September 2017
Routes 3 & 3A Birkenhead or Liverpool - Seacombe or New Brighton - Timetable Available
Routes 10B & 16 New Brighton - Woodchurch/Arrowe Park - Timetable Available
Routes 13, 23, 23A, 23D and 203 - Services withdrawn
Route 38A Bromborough - Saughall Massie & Moreton - Timetbale Available
MORE DETAILS AND TIMETABLE WILL BE BEING ADDED OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS
Major service changes across Merseyside July 2017
Changes from 23rd July2017
DETAILS TO FOLLOW IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS
Major service changes across Merseyside and Chester April 2017
Changes from 23rd April 2017
Routes 2 & 465, Liverpool - Ellesmere Port or Chester. numerous changes please see timetable for changes. Timetable available
Route 16, Birkenhead - Woodchruch. Service is rerouted to now serve Shrewsbury Road, Upton Road, Boundary Road then onto Bidston Road meaning Tollemache Road and Ashburton Road are no longer served The journeys that’s started/finished from Arrowe Park no longer run. Timetable available
Route 24, Crosby - Liverpool - Fazakerley. This new service is introduced, running every 30 minutes Monday to Friday route 24 connects Crosby with Netherton, Aintree, Fazakerley Hospital, Walton and Liverpool Queen Square.
Route 38A, Bromborough - West Kirby. Route 38A is rerouted so journeys now only run between Saughall Massie and Bromborough. Journeys from Saughall Massie now loop round to serve Sughall Massie Road, Saughall Road and then connecting to Hoylake Road. Times have been changed. Timetable available
Routes 40, 41, 41A & 45 numerous changes please see timetable for changes. Timetable available
Route 44, Old Roan - Liverpool. New Sunday and evening journeys are introduced running hourly between Bootle Bus Station and Netherton. Timetable available
Routes 74, 74X, 75 & 473 numerous changes please see timetable for changes. Timetable available
Route 313, Ormskirk - Skelmersdale. New service introduced replacing Arriva’s 313 between Skelmersdale Concourse, Ashurst, Birch Green, Skelmersdale Concourse then journeys extend to serve Neverstitch Road, Ormskirk. Running Monday - Saturday at a frequency of every 30 minutes. Timetable available
Route 438, Liverpool - West Kirby. Frequency of journeys is now increased from every 60 minutes to every 30 minutes. Journeys now start and finish at Cook Street in Liverpool City Centre. Some journeys are also rerouted to serve Town Meadow Lane in Moreton replacing withdrawn 412 service. Timetable available
Major service changes across Merseyside and Chester January 2017
Liverpool Area from 23rd January 2017
Route 22, Northwood - Water Street/Lord Street. Journeys now run every 15 minutes to make a joint frequency of every 7/8 minutes with route 23. Journeys no longer run to a co-ordinated timetable with route 42/43.
Route 23, Tower Hill - Water Street/Lord Street. Journeys now run every 15 minutes to make a joint frequency of every 7/8 minutes with route 22. Journeys no longer run to a co-ordinated timetable with route 42/43.
Route 34, Netherton - Dingle Mount (Aintree Bus). Journeys now start and finish at Liverpool One instead of Dingle Mount and journeys now extend from Netherton to Old Roan. Timetable available
Platinum Route 41, Queen Square - Ormskirk. Journeys now run earlier in the mornings and now run to a co-ordinated timetable with routes 42/42A. All other journeys remain unchanged.
Platinum Route 41A, Queen Square - Ormskirk. Journeys now run earlier in the mornings and now run to a co-ordinated timetable with routes 42/42A. Some morning and evening journeys run as route 42A between Maghull Station, Ormskirk and Southport.
New Platinum Route 42, Ormskirk - Southport. This new service is introduced as an extension to routes 41/41A. Running every 60 minutes daily route 42 connects Ormskirk with Heatons Bridge and Southport.
New Platinum Route 42A, Maghull Station or Ormskirk - Southport. This new service is introduced as an extension to routes 41/41A. Running every 60 minutes daily route 42A connects Ormskirk with Southport Road and Southport.
Route 42, Northwood - Mann Island. Timetable has been changed, service no longer interwork with routes 22/23.
Route 43, Tower Hill - Mann Island. All evening journeys now only run between Queen Square and Waddicar. Timetable has also been changed, service no longer interwork with routes 22/23.
Route 44, Netherton - Water Street/Lord Street (Aintree Bus). All journeys now serve Sterrix Lane in Litherland and now start and finish at Liverpool One instead of Water/Lord Street. Timetable Available
Route 56, Old Roan or Netherton - Liverpool ONE (Aintree Bus). New Monday - Saturday AM and evening journeys are introduced, with Sunday services now running between 8pm & 11pm to Netherton Only. Timetable available
Route 204, Alder Hey - Dingle (Aintree Bus). All journeys now serve Alder hey Hospital First then finish at Broadgreen Hospital. Journeys towards Dingle now start/finish at Liverpool One Bus Station. These journeys interwork with routes 34, 44 & 56. Timetable available
Route 883, Huyton - Liverpool (Aintree Bus), new service introduced.
Wirral Area from 1st January 2017
Platinum Route 1, Liverpool - Chester. Frequency reduced from every 20 minutes to every 30 minutes. The drop in service frequency is to reduce congestion on services. New routes X1 will provide a more direct link between Liverpool and Chester along with route 1C which will be introduced between Chester, ChesterZoo and Cheshire Oaks.
Route 1C, Chester Rail Station - Cheshire Oaks. New service introduced, running Monday - Sunday daytime at a frequency of every 30 minutes Route 1C will connect Chester with Bache, Chester Zoo and Cheshire Oaks.
Platinum Route X1, Liverpool - Chester. New service introduced, running Monday - Saturday daytime at a frequency of every 30 minutes route X1 will provide a more direct link between Liverpool and Chester.
Route 2, Liverpool - Chester. Frequency reduced from every 20 minutes to every 30 minutes. The drop in service frequency is to reduce congestion on services.
Route 16, Woodside - Moreton Cross. Journeys now only run between Woodchurch, Houghton Road and Birkenhead Bus Station. Some journeys extend to Arrowe Park then run to Chester as route 74. Saturday journeys are also withdrawn. Timetable available
Route 23, Birkenhead and Seacombe circular. Journeys towards Birkenhead now serve Woodside Bus Station before Birkenhead Bus Station.
Route 37, West Kirby - Liverpool. Service frequency is increased from every 12 minutes to every 10 minutes. Some peak journeys will run as Express service 420 to make a quicker connection with West Kirby.
Route 38, West Kirby - Croft Retail Park. Journeys will now only run between Birkenhead Bus Station and Croft Retail Park. Part of this route is replaced by route 438
Route 38A, West Kirby - Croft Retail Park. All evening and Sunday services are withdrawn and replaced by revised route 40.
Route 40, Birkenhead - Mill Park. Journeys now extend from Birkenhead to West Kirby via Claughton, Moreton and Saughall Massie.
Route 74, Chester - Heswall or Arrowe Park. Some evening journeys now extend from Heswall to Arrowe Park Hospital while some evening journeys towards Chester are replaced by route 473. Timetable available
Route 88, Parkgate, Neston, Clatterbridge or Bebington Road - Liverpool. Extra journeys running between Liverpool and Clatterbridge are introduced to make a combined frequency of every 15 minutes between Liverpool and Bebington. All other times are unchanged.
Route 293, Woodside - West Kirby. New service. Timetable available
Route 412, Morreton - Woodside. Route 412 is reintroduced as a rail replacement running every 20 minutes route 412 will serve between Moreton, Bidston, Birkenhead Park, Birkenhead and Liverpool. Timetable available
Route 438, West Kirby - Liverpool. Route 438 is introduced as a rail replacement running every 60 minutes route 438 will serve between West Kirby, Hoylake, Moreton, Bidston, Claughton, Birkenhead and Liverpool Dale Street.
Route 451, New Brighton - Liverpool. Service frequency is increased from every 15 minutes to every 12 minutes. Two evening peak journeys are introduced from Birkenhead. A new Night Service is introduced.
Route 473, Barnston - Liverpool or Liverpool - Neston. Some morning services and evening journeys towards Liverpool are withdrawn but are partly replaced by routes 16 and 74.Some evening journeys extend from Neston to Chester. Timetable available
Major service changes across all networks September 5th 2016
Chester Area
Route 3, Rivacre - Chester. Journeys are curtailed to only run between Rivacre Brow and Ellesmere Port. The Direct Journeys from Ellesmere Port and Chester are replaced by SP1 and SP2
Route 6, Wolverham Stanney Grange - Great Sutton. Journeys now only run between Great Sutton and Ellesmere Port. Journeys to Wolverham Stanney Grange are renumbered 7
Route 7, Stanney Grange - Great Sutton. New service running between Great Sutton, Ellesmere Port and Stanney Grange
Park and Ride Routes 30, 31, 32 & 33. Services are withdrawn and replaced by new routes PR1 or PR2
Route 44 Chester - Flint. Service is withdrawn
Route 63C Chester - Holywell. Renumbered to "63" and now runs from every 60 minutes to every 20 minutes replacing withdrawn routes 44 and 63C
Route X63 Chester - Rhyl. Service is withdrawn
Route 79 Chester - Mold. Service is withdrawn
Route PR1 Upton - Wrexham Road. Routes, 30, 31, 32 and 33 are combined to make a cross city Park and Ride service. Route PR1 will replace routes 31 and 33.
Route PR2 Boughton Heath - Sealand Road. Routes, 30, 31, 32 and 33 are combined to make a cross city Park and Ride service. Route PR2 will replace routes 30 and 32.
Route SP1 Ellesmere Port - Mold. Routes SP1 and SP2 now run from Deeside to Chester then will run a direct route to Ellesmere Port replacing withdrawn 79 and revised Route 3 journeys. The current route between Deeside, Cheshire Oaks and Ellesmere Port are renumbered SP3
Route SP2 *See above
Route SP3 *See above
Liverpool Area
45X Liverpool - Selmersdale. Renumbered to "45"
U1 Liverpool - Ormskirk. This new service is introduced by Aintree Bus, running hourly route U1 connects Ormskirk with Edge Hill university, Aintree, Netherton Way, Kirkdale and Liverpool City centre. There will also be a Night Services that will be introduced.
U98 Liverpool - Universities - Halls - South Parkway. Route 98 is reintroduced and is renumbered U98
U99 Liverpool - Universities - Halls. Route 98 that ran between halls and Liverpool are renumbered to U99. Route N99 will run as U99.
Wirral Routes
Route 11A New Brighton - Liverpool. Evening times have been changes with additional Sunday journeys being introduced. Timetable Available
Route 13 Birkenhead - New Brighton. Routes 13 and 23 are combined together to make a joint Circular route. Running every 20 minutes route 13 now runs in one direction between Birkenhead, Arrowe Park, Moreton, Wallasey Village, Liscard Village, Liscard Road, Seacombe Ferry, Woodside Ferry and Birkenhead. Manor Road or New Brighton are no longer served.
Route 23 Liverpool - Seacombe Ferry - Birkenhead. Routes 13 and 23 are combined together to make a joint Circular route. Running every 20 minutes route 23 now runs in one direction between Birkenhead, Seacombe Ferry, Liscard Road, Liscard Village Wallasey Village, Moreton, Arrowe Park and Birkenhead. Town Meadow Lane and Liverpool are no longer served.
Route 23A Liverpool - New Brighton. Times have been changed
Route 23D Liverpool - Seacombe Ferry. This new service is an evening and Sunday variant of routes 13 and 23. Route 23 will run in both directions following the current 23 route between Liverpool and Seacombe.
Route 41 Mill Park - Woodchurch. Times have been changed to make a combined frequency of every 12 minutes with route 45.
Route 45 Mill Park - Arrowe Park or West Kirby. Times have been changed to make a combined frequency of every 12 minutes with route 41.
Route 73 New Brighton - West Kirby or Heswall. Journeys now run every 20 minutes and will now serve Town Meadow Lane.
Route 88 Liverpool - Parkgate, Neston, Bebington or Heswall. Journeys that extended to Heswall are withdrawn. Evening journeys extend from Bebington Station to Bebington Road.
Route 411 New Brighton - Liverpool or Birkenhead. Some evening times have been changed. Journeys no longer serve Liverpool. Timetable available
New school services 628, 658 and 698 are introduced.
New services introduced in Chester July 2016
Route 6, Wolverham Stanney Grange - Great Sutton
Route 36, Ellesmere Port - Runcorn
DB1, Chester - Mold
DB2, Chester - Saltney
DB4, Chester - Deeside
SP1 Ellesmere Port - Cheshire Oaks - Mold
SP2, Ellesmere Port - Cheshire Oaks - Mold
Minor service changes in Merseyside July 24th 2016
Route 5, Liverpool - Prescot. Journeys are renumbered to "6" but will now only run between Liverpool and Huyton with journeys now serving Roby
Route 5A, Liverpool - St Helens. Journeys are renumbered to "5" and will now serve London Road & Prescot Road then on to Broadgreen Road omitting Brownlow Hill & Edge Hill Road.Journeys start and finish later.
Plus + Route 11, Liverpool - Willow Way. Journeys every 30 minutes and all evening journeys are renumbered to 11A and extend from Croxteth to Kirkby Bus Facility. Some morning journeys are renumbered 11X and extend from Croxteth to serve Kirkby Industrial estate.
Route 22 Liverpool - Northwood. Journeys in Liverpool City Centre extend from Queen Square to now Finish at Water Street and Start at Lord Street.
Route 23 Liverpool - Tower Hill. Journeys in Liverpool City Centre extend from Queen Square to now Finish at Water Street and Start at Lord Street.
Routes 35/35D, Liverpool - Netherton. This new service is introduced by Aintree Bus. Running every 30 minutes Monday - Saturday route 35 connects Netherton with Sterrix Lane, Netherton Way, Bootle Cemetary, Bootle New Strand and Liverpool Queen Sqaure. Evening journeys will run as route 135. Some early morning journeys are numbered 35D and extend from Queen Square to Victoria Street.
Route 51, Liverpool - Thornton. Service is withdrawn but replaced by new 57/59 timetable.
Route 56, Liverpool - Old Roan. This new service is introduced by Aintree Bus will run on Sundays Only and will follow the current Arriva 56 oute but extend from Netherton to Old Roan
Route 57, Liverpool - Netherton. Routes 51, 57 & 59 are combined together to make a joint circular service between Liverpool, Bootle, Crosby, Thornton, Netherton, Orrel, Bootle and Liverpool. Route 57 journeys that ran between Liverpool and Aintree are renumbered 57A but will run as the same route.
Route 57A, Liverpool - Aintree Station *See above
Route 59, Liverpool - Netherton. *See above
Route 64, Liverpool Airport - Crosby. Daytime services that ran between Crosby and Liverpool Airport now only un between Netherton and Liverpool Airport.
Routes 98/N99 Liverpool - Student Halls or South Parkway. Journeys are withdrawn over the Summer period
Route 133 Kirkby - Waterloo. Journeys now serve Ashworth Hospital
Route 319 St Helens - Ormskirk. Route withdrawn
Route 365 Liverpool - Ormskirk. Route withdrawn
Minor service changes to Merseyside April 25th 2016
Route 11A, Wallasey Village - Liverpool, journeys are curtailed to only run between Liverpool and New Brighton, meaning Wallasey Village is no longer served - Timetable available
Route 13, New Brighton - Woodside, service is reintroduced replacing some revised 23 and 73 journeys - Timetable available
Route 19 New Brighton - Clatterbridge, service is rerouted in Rock Ferry - Timetable Available
Route 19A, New Brighton - Croft Retail Park, service is rerouted in Rock Ferry. Saturday daytime journeys are introduced with journeys now serving Clatterbridge Hospital but only runs to Croft Retail Park instead of Mill Park - Timetable Available
Route 23, Seacombe Ferry - Liverpool One, Monday - Saturday daytime journeys now start from Birkenhead Bus Station and run to Seacombe ferry then follows the current route to Liverpool but now finish at cook Street instead of Liverpool One. Service frequency is reduced from every 20 minutes to every 30 minutes - Timetable available
Route 23A, New Brighton - Liverpool One, journeys are curtailed to only run between New Brighton and Liverpool Whitechapel - Timetable available
Route 73, Heswall or West Kirby - New Brighton, service frewuency is reduced from every 20 minutes to every 30 minutes and now run to a coordinated timetable with routes 13, 23 & 23A. Journeys are also rerouted to now serve Orrysdale Drive instead of Newton Cross Road - Timetable available
Route 74, Heswall - Chester, The Morning and evening express journeys are withdrawn. Journeys now finish earlier and Sunday services are withdrawn - Timetable available
Route 75, Heswall - Chester, The Monday—Friday morning service is withdrawn. Journeys on Sundays now run every 60 minutes and extend from Heswall to West Kirby replacing withdrawn 73 journeys - Timetable available
Route 88, Liverpool - Parkgate, Extra evening and Sunday journeys are introduced with two evening journeys being extended to Heswall replacing withdrawn 473 journeys along with extra evening journeys running between Liverpool and Bebington and on Sundays between Liverpool and Clatterbridge. - Timetable available
Route 411 New Brighton - Liverpool or Woodside, journeys now start later in the evenings - Timetable Available
Route 433 New Brighton - Liverpool, service is withdrawn
Route 450 New Brighton - Liverpool, service is withdrawn
Route 451 New Brighton - Liverpool, times have been changed - Timetable available
Route 473 Barnston - Liverpool One or Liverpool One - Neston, some journeys have been withdrawn. All other journeys are retimed and rerouted in Liverpool - Timetable available
more details to be added soon
New service in Chester 23rd March 2016
C84 Chester - Crewe
Minor service changes in Manchester & Wigan from 24th January
Route 77, journeys extend from Moston to Oldham
Route 112 Middleton - Piccadilly. Most daytime journeys extend from Piccadilly Gardens to East Didsbury
Route 114 Alkrington - Piccadilly. Times have been changed
Route 118 North Manchester General Hospital - Piccadilly. Journeys every 20 minutes will run between N.M.G Hospital and East Didsbury while other journeys every 20 minutes will run between Piccadilly and White Moss.
Route 118A, new service introced. Route 118A will run evening times between Piccadilly and Easy Didsbury
Route 109 Chorley - Preston, times are changed
Route 111 Preston - Leyland, half of journeys are renumbered 311 and extend to Chorley and Wigan
Route 115 Preston - Chorley, journeys are curtailed to only run between Preston and Leyland
Route 119 Leyland - Chorley, service is withdrawn
Route 311 Preston - Chorley - Wigan. This new platinum service is introduced replacing some 111, 115 and 119 jounreys.
Major service changes to Liverpool Routes from 7th December 2015
Route 3 Aigburth or Liverpool - Crosby, service is withdrawn.
Route 4 Liverpool - Alder Hey, service is withdrawn and replaced by 204.
Route 5 Liverpool - Prescot, All services are extended back to Prescot from Huyton and frequency is increased from every 30 minutes to every 20 minutes - Timetable in progress
Route 5A Liverpool - St Helens, Service frequency is increased from every 30 minutes to every 20 minutes. All journeys are to be upgraded to Kameo Plus - Timetable in progress
Route 11 Liverpool - Croxteth, Services now run at frequency of every 7/8 mins. This change will see an upgrade to Kameo Plus - Timetable in progress
Route 18A Liverpool - Fazakerley, service is withdrawn
Route 19 New Brighton - Clatterbridge, times have been changed - timetable in progress
Route 19A/418 New Brighton - Mill Park services are withdrawn but are replaced by services 118/119, timetable in progress.
Route 22 Liverpool - Kirkby, All services extend from Kirkby to now serve Northwood, new sister service 23 is introduced to improve frequency - Timetable in progress
Route 23 Liverpool - Kirkby, This new service is introduced, route 23 is a sister service to route 22, it will follow the same route to Kirkby but will extend to Tower Hill - Timetable in progress
Route 28 Liverpool - Croxteth Park, Times have been changed with some journeys replacing withdrawn 18A route,this service no longer interworks with route 29 - Timetable in progress
Route 29 Liverpool - Croxteth Park, Service frequency is reduced, service no longer interworks with route 28. Services now serve Ranleagh Street - Timetable in progress
Route 30 Liverpool - Waddicar, Times have been changed, services will now run City Centre and Old Roan (Waddicar is no longer served). The route has also been changed so services will now run via Scotland road instead of Vauxhall Road. Services will also serve Stanley Road, Melrose Road, Southport Road, and Hornby Road where it will carry on as normal from Rice Lane to Old Roan. Meaning Westminster Road and County Road is no longer served - timetable in progress
Route 33 Kirkby - Crosby, some morning and afternoon services extend from Crosby to serve Waterloo and Aigburth Vale - Timetable in progress
Route 34 Liverpool - Netherton, New Service - from 7th December - Click for Timetable
Routes 41/41A Liverpool - Ormskirk, times have been changed to make the timetable more reliable Click for Timetable
Route 42 Liverpool - Kirkby, This new service is introduced, route 42 is a sister service to route 43, it will follow a similar route to Kirkby but will avoid Waddicar and will extend from Kirkby to Northwood - timetable in progress
Route 43 Liverpool - Kirkby, Journeys now extend to Tower Hill, the service frequency is reduced to every 20 minutes but the timetable is combined with route 22 and new routes 23 & 43 to make a combined frequency of every 5 minutes to Kirkby - timetable in progress
Route 44 Liverpool - Netherton, Route & times changed - from 7th December - Click for the Timetable
Route 45X Liverpool - Skelmersdale, Saturday services have been introduced with additional journeys starting from Ormskirk - From 7th December - Timtable in progress
Route 48 Liverpool - Southport, Times have been changed. Route 48A is withdrawn meaning route 48 now runs at a frequency of every 20 minutes. Morning, evening and all Sunday services are numbered 48D and will extend from Queen Square to serve Liverpool One via Dale Street & James Street - timetable in progress
Route 48A Liverpool - Southport Hospital, service is withdrawn.
Route 48D Liverpool One - Southport, new service, New service. Route 48A is withdrawn meaning route 48 now runs at a frequency of every 20 minutes. Morning, evening and all Sunday services are numbered 48D and will extend from Queen Square to serve Liverpool One via Dale Street & James Street - timetable in progress
Route 62 Crosby - Stockbridge Village, All journeys now start at Crosby, journeys are rerouted away from Stockbridge to now serve Liverpool Airport via Stoneycroft, Childwall and Hunts Cross. Sunday services are introduced - timetable in progress
Route 122 Crosby - Fazakerley, service is withdrawn
Route 204 Dingle - Alder Hey, daytime services are introduced replacing withdrawn service4 journeys - timetable in progress
Route 216 Birknhead- Arrowe Park, evening services are withdrawn but are partly replaced by new 118/119/192/195 services
Route 217 Arrowe Park - Birkenhead, evening services are withdrawn but are partly replaced by new 118/119/192/195 services
Route 365 Halewood - Ormskirk, services no longer serve Halewood and now start from Liverpool Queen Square - timetable in progress
Route 492 Liverpool - Beechwood Circular, evening services are replaced by new 192 service - timetable in progress
Route 495 Liverpool - Beechwood Circular, evening services are replaced by new 195 service - timetable in progress
Route X1 Liverpool One - Windmill Hill, New service - From 7th December - Timetable in progress