Ribble timetables for services 216, 265 and 278 from 1 Nov 1967

The bus service up to Holcombe Village had, until the late 1960s, been largely covered by Ribble Motor Services on their Walshaw-Tottington-Holcombe Brook-Holcombe Village service 278. This page from the Ribble timetable book commencing 1 November 1967 now only showed school journeys between Holcombe Brook and Holcombe Village. It was around this time that Ramsbottom UDC acquired an Albion Nimbus to provide the daytime service up to Holcombe Village. Note the timetable states ‘Jointly with Bury Corporation and Ramsbottom UDC between Holcombe Brook and Holcombe Village’. Close examination of the timetables for service 216 and 278 shows that service 278 was covered by the buses to and from service 216.