Set of four Ribble stage carriage timetable books 1957/1958 (DSCF2049)

Timetables for Ribble’s stage carriage services were published in four different area books. This is the set for the winter period 30 September 1957 to 27 June 1958 which featured a charming almost story book like front on sketch of a bus resembling a Burlingham bodied PD3/4 – a little more rounded than the real thing. Where a service operated between two different areas the service timetable appeared in the two relevant area books. For example, the Blackpool-Rochdale service 158 appeared in the area 2 book covering the Blackpool and Preston area (in table number 83) and in the area 3 book covering Blackburn and East Lancashire (in table 13). All four books featured the same timetable index which outlined the relevant table number in the relevant book(s) where a timetable could be found.