Great topic, being able to compare old and current prices! I occassionally used the 64 but could you say what I paid on the 50 and 58 to Lower Bebington village in 1953?
Here's the fare table from the 1953 timetable.
Curious; why the special fare from Woodside to Argyle St.South/Hinderton Rd. I wonder?
BTW, the 50 terminated at Spital Cross Roads; only the 58 went to Clatterbridge.
Many thanks for that. The fare was 5d (2p) but I always wore my apprentice overalls to get the 'workman's' 4d concession! Every little helped in those days. Bri (Windy Isle of Wight)
this is a reply I got from Arriva buses also you can download bus timetables from there
Either one of you can do it who have the old timetables or post the old routes and bus numbers and I'll email them
Your question is there any way of getting the price of fares to match up with your timetables for present day journeys in Birkenhead wirral Some of my friends have timetables and fares for 1950s/60s and we'd like to compare them
We would be unable to give you a bulk list of our fares and this forms commercially sensitive data.
However if you wanted a few journeys then this would cause no problems.
I think that the stops in the timetable were the fare stages, if you stayed within them it didn't matter which stop you got off, you paid the same fare. The conductor had to know the stops all along the route and worked out the fare from the stages. I think my memory is coming back.
I also remember one old dear got on in New Ferry, going towards Woodside, who asked if she could take her dog inside instead of upstairs. I had to tell her that it was blind dogs only inside, ordinary dogs had to go upstairs. She answered that her dog only had one eye. I pissed myself laughing and told her to go inside. Priceless.
