Blackpool bus station

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
Blackpool Transport's route 4 leaving the bus station en route to Wordsworth Avenue in the 1980s
General information
Other namesTalbot Road bus station
LocationTalbot Road, Blackpool, England
Coordinates53.820221°N 3.049855°W / 53.820221; -3.049855
Operated byBlackpool Borough Council
ConnectionsBlackpool North railway station (200 metres (220 yd))
History
Opened1939 (1939)
Closed2002 (2002)
Location
Blackpool bus station
Location within Lancashire

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.

See also

References
  1. "Perth bus users and drivers are warned as roadworks set to start on Mill Street" – Daily Record, 27 March 2016
  2. "The buses which shaped Blackpool's transport through a century" – Blackpool Gazette, 8 July 2021
  3. "17 retro pictures of Blackpool's 'dark, dismal and seedy' Talbot Road Bus Station" – Blackpool Gazette, 29 March 2023
  4. Rabbit, Jane (1 May 2022). "Blackpool Bus Hub and the Old Bus Station • Live Blackpool". Blackpool. Retrieved 8 June 2024.
  5. "Routes & Maps" – Blackpool Transport
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