Ribble services X4 and X14 timetable – 4 Jun to 25 Sep 1949

Ribble ran a Manchester to Burnley service travelling via Rochdale, Littleborough, Summit and Todmorden numbered X4/X14 which loosely ran every two hours. Some of the trips ran beyond Burnley to Blackpool (X4) or Morecambe (X14).

The service had certain licensing/fares restrictions and local traffic could not be carried over certain sections. Broadly speaking passengers boarding between Manchester and Slattocks had to travel to Littleborough or beyond (although if they paid the Todmorden fare they could alight en route); passengers boarding between Castleton and Littleborough had to travel to Holme Chapel or beyond. On the last trip of the day (2240 from Manchester) passengers could board at Rochdale for Todmorden and at Todmorden or Cornholme for Burnley.

Note in this timetable there was a short trip at 0750 from Burnley to Rochdale arriving 0839 and a corresponding return at 2235 from Rochdale to Burnley arriving at 2324. These were positioning journeys for the X89 Rochdale to Blackpool service which left Rochdale at 0850 and arrived back at 2211. This was prior to the introduction of the Fylde Coast Pool arrangements with Yelloway which started in the 1950s. The service number X89 continued to be used by the pool for the Oldham-Blackpool service.