Yelloway Lancashire-London services timetable - Summer 1973

The timetable for the 1973 Yelloway London services which operated between Easter and late October (also for a period over Christmas). The services comprised the ‘basic service’ as we referred to the Blackpool-Manchester-London day service (service M) and the Haslingden-Rochdale-Manchester feeder service (service X); and the Rochdale and Manchester to London motorway express ‘flyer’ down to London in the mornings returning from the capital at 1730 (service A). The overnight services were of a similar pattern to the day services M and X - although both night services lettered service N) - operating nightly during the main summer period but otherwise on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. There were additional services during the main summer period on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays including an afternoon Rochdale-Manchester-London ‘flyer’ south (returning north the following days) (service C); and a Saturdays only ‘flyer’ (in both directions) between Blackpool/St Annes/Preston and London (service B). The newest addition was the Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays (in both directions) between Bacup/Bury/Bolton and London which started on 25 May that year (service 1R). Rather late in the scheme of things the overall London services became numbered service 1 supplemented with the appropriate service letter (1M, 1X etc) but ‘1R’ was the only one that seemed to get mentioned thus in the timetable.