Redcourt Bus Club
This is a private bus service for the benefit of pupils at Birkenhead School, Birkenhead Prep School and Birkenhead High School.
The bus, which has been going for a great many years, is run by parents and operates on a non-profit making basis. The fee, set each term, is calculated on the length of the term and the number of children on the bus. A detailed route plan is given below.
Should you like further information or have any queries about the bus, please contact the membership secretary:
Jo Young
Telephone: 0151 327 5421
The bus may be joined at any stage of the term - the fee would be calculated accordingly.
Route and pick up/drop off points
- The first stop is by the Woodcote Hotel.
- It then stops outside the Hooton Inn.*
- The third stop is on the corner of Eastham Rake/Brookhurst Avenue, by Scafell Close
- The next stop is just before the junction of Brookhurst Avenue with Brookhurst Road.
- The next stop is the bus stop opposite the Church by the Common in Allport Lane
- The next stop is just before the T junction at the end of Croft Avenue.
- There are three stops on Spital Road – at Oakridge Road, Heronpark Way and Jocelyn Close
- Next stop is Church Road, next to the Church on the corner of Highcroft Avenue.
- Civic Way, outside the Town Hall.
- Heath Road, outside Wirral Grammar School.
- Between Kennet Road and Waterfield Close.
- Broadway
- Junction of Mount Road and Gayton Avenue**
- The last stop is almost opposite Mendip Road.
The Route Home
The bus picks up the girls first, outside the church on Alton Road. It leaves there by 1550. It picks up the boys outside the tennis court, in front of the staff car park exit on Bidston Road, leaving there at 1600.
* The bus drops outside Hooton Station on the way home.
** On the way home the bus takes a different route. Instead of turning left onto Thornton Road at the mini roundabouts, it continues and turns left down Broadway, re-joining the morning route at the roundabout at the bottom of the hill.
*** The bus turns down Plymyard Avenue, and not Brookhurst Avenue, stopping opposite the retirement homes, near Bettisfield Avenue, and opposite Rothesay Drive.
