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BRETONSIDE BUS STATION
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Bretonside Bus Station
in Plymouth was brought into use on Sunday March 30th 1958.
Mr Eric Watson, of 7
The Esplanade, The Hoe, was the first person to use the new facility.
He was the only person to board the 5.05am Western National service 88 to Ivybridge on his way to work at Moorhaven Hospital. |
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The original layout of Bretonside Bus
Station. |
The following bus routes terminated at Bretonside Bus Station:
First stand:
- 17 to Bridwell Road;
- 18 to Honicknowle Green;
- 43 to Ernesettle;
- 44 to Ernesettle;
Second stand:
Third stand:
- 40 to Southway;
- 42 to TamertonFoliot;
- 43 to Whiteigh;
- 44 to Whitleigh;
Fourth stand:
- 45 to Buckland Monachorum and
Milton Combe;
- 46 to Dousland and Meavy;
- 49 to Glenholt and Bickleigh;
- 83 to Tavistock;
- 83A to Whitchurch and Tavistock;
- 132 to Bideford;
- 135 to Bude;
Fifth stand:
- 50 to to Cornwood;
- 51 to Shaugh Prior;
- 88 to to Ivybridge, Moorhaven
Hospital, South Brent, and Ugborough;
- 98 to Ermington, Ugborough, Totnes and
Paignton;
- 128 to Totnes, Paignton and
Torquay;
- 129 to Ivybridge, Ashburton,
Chudleigh and Exeter;
Island Platform vstand 1:
- Heybrook Bay Motor Services routes
- 53 to Plymstock and RAF Mount
Batten;
- 57 to Wembury Beach;
- 94 to to Noss Mayo;
- 94A to Newton Ferrers;
Island Platform stand 2:
- 92 to Bigbury-on-Sea;
- 92A to Kingston, or Ringmore and
Bigbury-on-Sea;
- 93 to Kingsbridge Torcross and
Dartmouth;
- 139 to Mothecombe.
No fewer than 25 stands were reserved
for local excursions operated by the
Embankment Motor Service (Plymouth) Ltd,
the Western National Omnibus Company
Ltd and the Plymouth Co-operative
Society Ltd. Two stands were solely for use by Western National Royal
Blue express services.
Up on the main concourse the four shops
were occupied by Western National,
Embankment, Plymouth Co-operative Society
and Heybrook Bay Motors respectively.
Sources:
Plan of the Bus Station, Western
Evening Herald, Plymouth, March 28th 1958.
"Plymouth's New Bus Station in Use:
Quiet Day for Start of Reorganised Services", Western Evening
Herald, Plymouth, March 31st 1958.
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