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PLYMOUTH MOTOR BUS SERVICES  |  PLYMOUTH CORPORATION TRAMWAYS DEPARTMENT

MOTOR BUS ROUTE "J"

Plymouth's motor bus service "J" commenced running at the end of April or start of May 1930.  At first it ran on Sunday afternoons only, when a twenty-minute service was offered between Cattedown Corner, Greenbank, Mutley Plain, Ford Park Road and Plymouth Old Cemetery.

The service was licensed as H.1306 from July 8th 1931.  There was also a J1 service licensed (H.1344) to run from Cattedown Corner through Tothill Road and Hyde Park to Lyndhurst Road.  It is presumed that this was a football special.

By 1935 the J was running all day on Sundays, starting at 9am off Cattedown and 9.12am off the Old Cemetery.  The frequency in the morning was every 24 minutes but from 2pm this was increased to every 12 minutes.  The last buses left each end at 5.12pm.

When the whole network was renumbered on Monday April 5th 1937, the J became route 32.

 

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