Crosville official time table ; Area No.5 September 1948 : issued by Crosville Motor Services Ltd., Chester
The cover for the Area No. 5 timetable of the famous Crosville Motor Services who, based in Chester, covered much of that county and vast areas of North and mid-Wales with their bus services. An early entrant into the field they were formed in 1906 and by the time they had become associated, like many other bus concerns in the booming '30s, with railway investment, they had become the dominant operator in this area. As the map on the cover shows it was quite an operating territory - from the North Wales coast and its tourist resorts, across Snowdonia and into remote mountain areas that contrasted with the more urban landscape around Liverpool where they had group of lucrative services in Merseyside.
This booklet covers services in Anglesea,Bangor and the north and south Cambrian districts. The winter timetable was slightly reduced in frequencies, with some routes suspended for the season, but there's still an amazing variety of routes and destinations, many made possible by Crosville's various timed interchanges between services at key 'nodal' points so as to allow quite long distance trips to be made by stage carriage services. Crosville also operated express coach services and coach touring holidays. But many of these routes were a vital life line between remote rural areas and local market towns.
Crosville official time table ; Area No.5 September 1948 : issued by Crosville Motor Services Ltd., Chester
The cover for the Area No. 5 timetable of the famous Crosville Motor Services who, based in Chester, covered much of that county and vast areas of North and mid-Wales with their bus services. An early entrant into the field they were formed in 1906 and by the time they had become associated, like many other bus concerns in the booming '30s, with railway investment, they had become the dominant operator in this area. As the map on the cover shows it was quite an operating territory - from the North Wales coast and its tourist resorts, across Snowdonia and into remote mountain areas that contrasted with the more urban landscape around Liverpool where they had group of lucrative services in Merseyside.
This booklet covers services in Anglesea,Bangor and the north and south Cambrian districts. The winter timetable was slightly reduced in frequencies, with some routes suspended for the season, but there's still an amazing variety of routes and destinations, many made possible by Crosville's various timed interchanges between services at key 'nodal' points so as to allow quite long distance trips to be made by stage carriage services. Crosville also operated express coach services and coach touring holidays. But many of these routes were a vital life line between remote rural areas and local market towns.