page_title: Blackpool
section_title: Bus and coach
hierarchical_section_title: Blackpool / Transport / Bus and coach
caption_attribution_description: Blackpool Transport Services Limited (formerly Go Coastline) 221 T884 RBR, an Optare ‘Excel’ L1150 built 1999 with an Optare B41F body on the Promenade, Blackpool near the junction with Chapel Street with a St Annes Square to Fleetwood Freeport via Spring Gardens, South Shore Cricket Club, Spen Corner, Blackpool, Sour Lane Ends, and Broadwater 14 service. Friday 17th April 2009
context_page_description: Blackpool is a large town and seaside resort on the Lancashire coast in North West England. The town is on the Irish Sea, between the Ribble and Wyre estuaries, 15 miles northwest of Preston, 27 miles north of Liverpool, 28 miles northwest of Bolton and 40 miles northwest of Manchester. It had an estimated population of 139,720 at the 2011 Census, making it the most populous town in Lancashire.
  Throughout the Medieval and Early Modern period, Blackpool was a coastal hamlet in Lancashire's Hundred of Amounderness, and remained such until the mid-18th century when it became fashionable in England to travel to the coast in the summer to improve well-being. In 1781, visitors attracted to Blackpool's 7-mile sandy beach were able to use a new private road, built by Thomas Clifton and Sir Henry Hoghton. Stagecoaches began running to Blackpool from Manchester in the same year, and from Halifax in 1782. In the early 19th century, Henry Banks and his son-in-law John Cocker erected new buildings in Blackpool such that its population grew from less than 500 in 1801 to over 2,500 in 1851. St John's Church in Blackpool was consecrated in 1821.
context_section_description: Blackpool Transport operates the main bus services in and around Blackpool
  Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire operates the regional bus and coach services in and out of Blackpool
  National Express operates the main long-distance coach services in and out of Blackpool
  Facilities include:
  Blackpool Talbot Road Bus Station, which was the main town centre bus station but is now a gym. Blackpool Transport stopped using the bus station in the early 2000s after a disagreement with Blackpool Council regarding the state of the bus station building. Blackpool Transport now use Market Street and Corporation Street, in the town centre, as their bus interchange. National Express have also recently stopped using this bus station, moving to the new National Express Blackpool Central Coach Station.
  Blackpool Central Coach Station, which is mainly used by the National Express service along with some independent coach operators. The coach station has a booking office and toilet facilities.
  Blackpool Lonsdale Road Coach Station, the main coach station the South Shore district of Blackpool. This is mainly used by independent coach operators and also by some National Express services. The coach station has a café, shop and toilet facilities but is in a state of disrepair.
  Blackpool Colosseum Bus & Coach Station, which was the main bus and coach station in South Shore. Located next to Blackpool Transport Headquarters, it was demolished to make way for a Somerfield supermarket.
caption: A Blackpool Transport bus en route to Fleetwood
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