Hello and welcome to another blog post focusing on Arrowe Park. This small interchange features three bus stands where buses from Heswall, Birkenhead, New Brighton, Seacombe, and Woodside all converge in the heart of the Wirral Peninsula. Additionally, there are smaller routes operated by Stagecoach and A2B Travel, such as the 91, 16a/17a, and the 41/42 services.

This is the meeting point for services from Heswall to Liverpool for both the 471 and 472 services, operated by Arriva North West and Stagecoach in a joint partnership with Mersey Travel. This means that if you purchase a return or day ticket on either bus, you can use it on both services, offering great convenience for travellers and a choice of services. From Liverpool, Stagecoach operates the 472, while Arriva operates the 471. From Heswall, Stagecoach operates the 471, and Arriva operates the 472, and vice versa.

As I mentioned in previous posts about the 413 and 414, both routes meet at Arrowe Park in both directions. The 414 heads to New Brighton, while the 413 goes to Seacombe Ferry, with both services operating to Woodside. I recently wrote a blog post featuring both services for a new series I’ve called Split Routes. I’m also planning to do one on the 471/472! Arrowe Park isn’t quite large enough to be a bus station like the one at Birkenhead; it is merely a hub.

I also noticed that Arrowe Park has information displays inside the bus stops, showing when the next bus is heading to Liverpool, Birkenhead, or even arriving at Arrowe Park. I wish we had these at all the stops around the Wirral; it would be much easier than using your phone to guess when the next bus will arrive. Additionally, I noticed that A2B Travel calls here too, a small independent operator providing unique routes for Mersey Travel.

Below is a list of all the services operating from Arrowe Park Hospital. I found this list using Bus Times, an excellent website for bus enthusiasts like me who want to know the type of bus they will be travelling on. It provides details such as USB A or C availability, as well as the vehicle’s registration and model. It’s really handy when you’ve missed your bus or it’s running late, as you can see exactly where your bus is roughly located.

There is also a rather small stand by for services terminating at Arrowe Park, such as the 41/42 and the 16/17a, which is really interesting to see. You don’t get that very often, as most bus stations will have dedicated areas for buses to lay over with multiple buses terminating at once. Here at Arrowe Park, it’s just a single bus stand for alighting. However, with mostly Arriva and Stagecoach operating on the Wirral, it does get quite boring for bus spotters, so I am very much looking forward to expanding my horizons.

If you have any suggestions for hubs or interchanges I could visit in the future, I would greatly appreciate your input. I do enjoy visiting Arrowe Park, but I’ve been to the hospital there for check-ups and once when I had low calcium, so I try to avoid visiting Arrowe Park often as it brings back bad memories. Hopefully, my next hub visit will be from Liscard, which is local to me.