Blackpool bus station (known colloquially as Talbot Road bus station) was a bus station located on Talbot Road in Blackpool, Lancashire, England.[1] The building, which is bounded by Talbot Road to the north, Cookson Street (the A586) to the east, Deansgate to the south and Topping Street to the west, is now a gym.
Blackpool bus station | |||||
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.jpg) Blackpool Transport's route 4 leaving the bus station en route to Wordsworth Avenue in the 1980s | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Other names | Talbot Road bus station | ||||
| Location | Talbot Road, Blackpool, England | ||||
| Coordinates | 53°49′13″N 3°02′59″W / 53.820221°N 3.049855°W | ||||
| Operated by | Blackpool Borough Council | ||||
| Connections | Blackpool North railway station  (200 metres (220 yd)) | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 1939 | ||||
| Closed | 2002 | ||||
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Built in 1939, as the ground floor of a multi-story car park on land known as Talbot Mews,[2] the bus station was taken out of use in 2002. It was preceded by an open-air motor-coach station.[3]
In 2019, the town completed the Blackpool Bus Hub, on Market Street and Corporation Street,[4] from which run Blackpool Transport's routes 5, 5A, 5B, 5C, 6, 7, 7A, 11, 11A, 11B and 14,[5] and Stagecoach Cumbria & North Lancashire's routes 61 and 68.
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Blackpool Transport's route 14 at the bus station in the 1980s, en route to Fleetwood
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Perth bus users and drivers are warned as roadworks set to start on Mill Street" – Daily Record, 27 March 2016
- ^ "The buses which shaped Blackpool's transport through a century" – Blackpool Gazette, 8 July 2021
- ^ "17 retro pictures of Blackpool's 'dark, dismal and seedy' Talbot Road Bus Station" – Blackpool Gazette, 29 March 2023
- ^ Rabbit, Jane (1 May 2022). "Blackpool Bus Hub and the Old Bus Station • Live Blackpool". Blackpool. Retrieved 8 June 2024.
- ^ "Routes & Maps" – Blackpool Transport