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Overview of changes to the Liverpool Bus Network from 4th September 2022

  • Speke Zone retained
  • 135 increase in frequency
  • X3 service withdrawn 17 extended to replace X3 withdrawal
  • 204 Hospital links maintained

Share your views on the following changes, at the end of table below!

Detailed changes:

Service

Current Provision

Overview of Proposed Change

Proposed Provision

Alternative services for areas no longer served

10A

Arriva / Stagecoach

Liverpool – St Helens

Stagecoach Every 30 minutes 

(Monday – Friday)

Arriva Every 15 minutes 

(Monday – Friday)

Stagecoach Every 30 minutes (Saturday)

Arriva Every 15 minutes 

(Saturday)

Stagecoach 2 Journeys per hour (Sunday)

Arriva Every 20 minutes (Sunday)

Frequency Increase (Monday – Sunday)

Monday – Friday: Increased to combined 7/8 min frequency

 

Saturday: Increased to combined 7/8 min frequency

 

Sunday: Increased to combined 10 min frequency

 

N/A

10B

Arriva

Queen Square Bus Station – Huyton Every 10 minutes (Monday – Friday)

Every 15 minutes (Saturday)

Every 20 minutes (Sunday)

Sunday Evenings frequency reduction

Monday to Friday: No Change 

Saturday: No Change

Sunday: Drop to Hourly from 21:00

N/A

12 

Arriva

Liverpool – Stockbridge Village

Every 15 minutes (Monday – Friday)

Every 15 minutes (Saturday)

Every 20 minutes (Sunday)

Sunday Evenings frequency reduction

Monday to Friday: No Change 

Saturday: No Change

Sunday: Drop to Hourly from 22:00

N/A

13

Arriva

Liverpool – Stockbridge Village

Every 15 minutes (Monday – Friday)

Every 15 minutes (Saturday)

Every 20 minutes (Sunday)

Sunday Evenings frequency reduction

Monday to Friday: No Change

Saturday: No Change

Sunday: Drop to Hourly from 22:00

N/A

14

Arriva / Stagecoach

Liverpool City Centre (Lord St/QSBS) - Croxteth (Willow Way)

Every 6minutes (Monday – Friday)

Every 6 minutes (Saturday)

Every 7/8 minutes (Sunday)

Every 15 mins (Evenings)

Above frequencies are combined between both operators.

Saturday Frequency Reduced

Monday to Friday: No Change

Saturday: Frequency reduced to combined every 7/8 minutes

Sunday: No Change

N/A

14A

Stagecoach

Liverpool – Tower Hill

2 journeys / hour (Monday – Friday)

2 journeys / hour (Saturday)

Every 30 minutes (Sunday)

Route Change 

Monday to Friday: Service will terminate at Kirkby Bus Station and not continue through to Tower Hill 

Saturday: Service will terminate at Kirkby Bus Station and not continue through to Tower Hill 

Sunday: Service will terminate at Kirkby Bus Station and not continue through to Tower Hill 

Connect with service 217 at Kirkby Bus Station to travel through to Tower Hill

15

Arriva

Liverpool – Huyton Bus Station

Every 10 minutes (Monday – Friday)

Every 15 minutes (Saturday)

Every 20 minutes (Sunday)

Sunday evening frequency reduction

Monday to Friday: No Change

Saturday: No Change

Sunday: Drop to Hourly from 22:00

N/A

17

Stagecoach

Liverpool – Aintree University Hospital / Kirkby

Every 10 minutes (Monday – Friday)

Every 10 minutes (Saturday)

Every 15 minutes (Sunday)

 

Service Extended

Monday – Friday: Service to extend to and around Kirkby Industrial Estate on an hourly frequency all day

 

Saturday: Service to extend to and around Kirkby Industrial Estate on an hourly frequency all day 

 

Sunday: Service to extend to and around Kirkby Industrial Estate on an hourly frequency all day 

 

Service will replace the withdrawn X3 between Aintree Hospital and Kirkby Industrial Estate and will provide connections to and from other services along sections of the X3 route

18

Arriva

Liverpool – Croxteth

Every 12 minutes (Monday – Friday)

Every 15 minutes (Saturday)

Every 20 minutes (Sunday)

Minor Change to Sunday Evenings

Monday to Friday: No Change 

Saturday: No Change

Sunday: Drop to Hourly from 22:00

N/A

26/27

Arriva

 

Liverpool One – Sheil Road Circular

Every 10 minutes (Monday – Friday)

Every 15 minutes (Saturday)

Every 20 minutes (Sunday)

Sunday evening frequency reduction

 

Monday to Friday: No Change 

Saturday: No Change

Sunday: Hourly from 22:00

N/A

52/52A Arriva

Liverpool – Old Roan

Every 10 minutes (Monday – Friday)

Every 15 minutes (Saturday)

Every 20 minutes (Sunday)

Saturday evening frequency reduction

 

Monday to Friday: No Change 

Saturday: Reduce to every 20 minutes from 17:00

Sunday; No Change

N/A

54

Arriva

Liverpool – Thornton Circular

Every 30 minutes (Monday – Friday)

Every 30 minutes (Saturday)

Every 30 minutes (Sunday)

Sunday Frequency reduction

 

Monday to Friday: No Change

Saturday: No Change 

Sunday: Reduced to every 60 Minutes

N/A

55 

Arriva

Liverpool – Old Roan

Every 30 minutes (Monday – Friday)

Every 30 minutes (Saturday)

Every 30 minutes (Sunday)

Sunday Frequency reduction

 

Monday to Friday: No Change

Saturday: No Change 

Sunday: Reduced to every 60 Minutes

N/A

58 /58A Arriva

Liverpool – Netherton

Every 30 minutes (Monday – Friday)

Every 30 minutes (Saturday)

Every 60 minutes (Sunday)

Saturday Frequency reduction

Monday to Friday: No Change

Saturday; reduced to every 60 minutes

Sunday: No Change 

N/A

60

Arriva

Bootle – Aigburth Vale 

Every 15 minutes (Monday – Friday)

Every 20 minutes (Saturday)

Every 30 minutes (Sunday)

 

Minor Frequency Reductions

Monday to Friday: reduced to every 60 minutes from 22:00

Saturday: reduced to every 60 minutes from 22:00

Sunday: reduced to every 60 minutes from 21:00

 

N/A

61 (Halton)

Liverpool – Halton Hospital

Every 40 minutes (Monday – Friday)

Every 40 minutes (Saturday)

Every 60 minutes (Sunday)

Frequency Reduction (Monday –Saturday)

Monday to Friday: Frequency reduced to every 60 minutes

Saturday: Frequency reduced to every 60 minutes 

Sunday: No Change

N/A

62

Arriva

Bootle – Penny Lane

Every 20 minutes (Monday – Friday)

Every 30 minutes (Saturday)

Every 30 minutes (Sunday)

 

Minor Evening Frequency reduction

 

Monday to Friday; reduced to every 60 minutes from 22:00

Saturday; reduced to every 60 minutes from 22:00

Sunday; Evenings reduced to every 60 minutes from 21:00

 

 

N/A

76

Arriva

Liverpool One Bus Station to Halewood Shopping Centre

Every 30 minutes (Monday – Friday)

Every 30 minutes (Saturday)

Every 60 minutes (Sunday)

Monday – Saturday frequency reduced from every 30 to 60 minutes. 

Monday to Friday: Reduced to Hourly Service but with 30-minute service in the am & pm peak

Saturday: Reduced to hourly

Sunday: No Change 

N/A

78

Arriva

Halewood Shopping Centre to Queen Square Bus Station

Every 30 minutes (Monday – Friday)

Every 60 minutes (Saturday)

Every 60 minutes (Sunday)

Monday – Friday frequency reduced from every 30 to 60 minutes. 

 

Monday to Friday: Reduced to Hourly Service but with 30-minute service in the am & pm peak

Saturday: No Change 

Sunday: No Change 

N/A

 

79

Arriva

Liverpool One Bus Station to Halewood Shopping Centre

Every 8 minutes (Monday – Friday)

Every 10 minutes (Saturday)

Every 20 minutes (Sunday)

 

Reduction in frequency between Belle Vale and Halewood

 

Monday to Friday: Liverpool – Halewood every 16 minutes. Retain journeys between Liverpool & Belle Vale to provide service every 8 minutes

Saturday: Liverpool – Halewood every 20 minutes. Retain journeys between Liverpool & Belle Vale to provide service every 10 minutes

Sunday: Liverpool – Halewood every 40 minutes. Retain journeys between Liverpool & Belle Vale to provide service every 20 minutes

N/A

 

80

Arriva

Liverpool One Bus Station to Speke

Every 30 minutes (Monday – Friday)

Every 30 minutes (Saturday)

No Service (Sunday)

Saturday frequency reduced from every 30 minutes to every 40 minutes

Monday to Friday: No Change

Saturday: 40 Minute Frequency

Sunday: No Change - No Service

N/A

 

80A

Arriva

Liverpool One Bus Station to Liverpool John Lennon Airport

Every 30 minutes (Monday – Friday)

Every 30 minutes (Saturday)

Every 20 minutes (Sunday)

Saturday frequency reduced from every 30 minutes to every 40 minutes

 

Monday to Friday: No Change 

Saturday: 40-minute Frequency

Sunday: No Change     

N/A

 

81

Arriva

Bootle Bus Station to Liverpool John Lennon Airport / Speke

Every 24 minutes (Monday – Friday)

Every 30 minutes (Saturday)

Every 30 minutes (Sunday)

 

Monday - Friday Between Hunts Cross and Bootle Bus Station the 81 and 81A operate with a combined daytime frequency of about every 12 minutes.

 

Monday to Friday frequency reduced 

Monday to Friday: reduced to every 30 minutes

Saturday: No Change

Sunday: No Change

 

Monday – Friday Between Hunts Cross and Bootle Bus Station the 81 and 81A operate with a combined daytime frequency of every 15 minutes

N/A

 

81A

Arriva

Bootle Bus Station to Liverpool John Lennon Airport / Speke

Every 24 minutes (Monday – Friday)

Every 30 minutes (Saturday)

No Service (Sunday)

 

 

Between Hunts Cross and Bootle Bus Station the 81 and 81A operate with a combined daytime frequency of about every 12 minutes.

Monday to Friday frequency reduced

 

Monday – Friday: reduced to every 30 minutes

Saturday: No Change

Sunday: No Change 

 

Between Hunts Cross and Bootle Bus Station the 81 and 81A operate with a combined daytime frequency of every 15 minutes.

N/A

121

Aintree Station - Broadway

Evenings every 30 minutes (Monday – Saturday)

Every 30 minutes (Sunday PM)

Frequency Reduction

Every 60 minutes (Monday – Saturday evenings & all-day Sunday)

N/A

135

Aintree Station  Bootle

Evenings

Every 120 minutes (Monday – Friday)

Evenings Every 120 minutes (Saturday)

From 12:00 Every 120 minutes (Sunday)

 

Frequency to be reintroduced at 60 minutes.

Millers Bridge no longer served. Route is now standardised.

 

Monday to Friday: Frequency increased to every 60 minutes

Saturday; Frequency increased to every 60 minutes

Sunday: Frequency increased to every 60 minutes

Journeys no longer operate via Millers Bridge. This provision now covered by revised evening & Sunday route of 144.

N/A

159

Walton Park – Aintree Hospital

Every 60minutes (Monday – Friday)

Every 60minutes (Saturday)

Every 60 minutes (Sunday)

(Evening & Sunday journeys operate between Bootle & Aintree Hospital only)

 

Evenings & Sundays route extended to Walton Park

 Service now operates Walton Park – Aintree Hospital all day, every day.

N/A

204

Liverpool One – Belle Vale Bus Station

Every 30 minutes (Monday – Friday)

Every 30 minutes (Saturday)

Every 60 minutes (Sunday)

Monday – Friday & Saturday Frequency Reduced

Monday to Friday: Frequency reduced to every 60 minutes

Saturday: Frequency reduced to every 60 minutes

Sunday: No Change

N/A

300

Arriva

Queen Square Bus Station – Southport

Every 30 minutes (Monday – Friday)

Every 30 minutes (Saturday)

Every 60 minutes (Sunday)

Saturday frequency reduction

Monday to Friday: No Change

Saturday: Frequency reduced to every 60 minutes

Sunday: No Change

Evenings remain 60 minutes Lydiate – Queen Square

N/A

310

Arriva

Liverpool - Maghull & Skelmersdale 

via Aintree, Maghull, Aughton, Ormskirk, Skelmersdale 

 

Every 30 minutes (Monday – Saturday)

Every 60 minutes (Sunday)

Reduced Service to Skelmersdale

Monday to Friday: Liverpool – Skelmersdale every 60 minutes. Retain journeys between Liverpool & Maghull to provide service every 30 minutes.

Saturday: Liverpool – Skelmersdale every 60 minutes. Retain journeys between Liverpool & Maghull to provide service every 30 minutes.

Sunday: No Change

N/A

432/433

Arriva

New Brighton – Liverpool

432 – 20 minutes Monday – Saturday

433 – 20 minutes Monday – Saturday

432 – 30 minutes Sunday

433 – 30 minutes Sunday

Minor Evening frequency reduction

 

Monday to Sunday

Frequency dropped to 40 minutes from 18:30 and hourly from 22:00, but evening 433 journeys introduced to give combined 20-minute frequency on common sections.

N/A

472

Stagecoach

Liverpool - Heswall

Every 30 minutes (Monday – Friday)

Every 30 minutes (Saturday)

Every 30 minutes (Sunday)

Frequency back to pre- Covid levels

Monday – Friday: Increased to every 20 Minutes.

Stagecoach enhancing timetable to provide a combined 10-minute service with the 471 on the common sections. 

20-minute frequency via Irby reintroduced

Saturday: No Change

Sunday: No Change

N/A

X3 Stagecoach

Queen Square Bus Station to Kirkby Admin

Average hourly (Monday – Friday)

No Service (Saturday)

No Service (Sunday)

Service Withdrawn

N/A

20 from Kirkdale Road then 17 from either Longmoor Lane or Kirkby Bus Station

19 from Queen Square to Southdene then 17

See 17. 


* If a bus service does not appear in this list, then there are no plans for it to change. However, there may be some revisions to timetables or operator. These will be confirmed by the beginning of August. Any changes to services to schools will be publicised via any affected schools.

Further information for some of the proposed changes outlined above, as we have them at present

17, 17X times - PROPOSED.pdf
17, 17X times - PROPOSED.pdf
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17_Route Extension_Map.jpg
17_Route Extension_Map.jpg
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121 times - PROPOSED.pdf
121 times - PROPOSED.pdf
pdf
135 times - PROPOSED.pdf
135 times - PROPOSED.pdf
pdf
135_144_Route Extension_Map.jpg
135_144_Route Extension_Map.jpg
jpg
159 times - PROPOSED.pdf
159 times - PROPOSED.pdf
pdf
62 evenings 04-09-22.pdf
62 evenings 04-09-22.pdf
pdf
204 timetable 04-09-22.pdf
204 timetable 04-09-22.pdf
pdf
217 times - PROPOSED.pdf
217 times - PROPOSED.pdf
pdf

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