Blackpool bus station

{{Short description|Bus station in Blackpool, England (1939–2002)}}

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{{Infobox station

| name = Blackpool bus station

| other_name = Talbot Road bus station

| image = Blackpool 573 OFR 973M (4646769975).jpg

| caption = Blackpool Transport's route 4 leaving the bus station en route to Wordsworth Avenue in the 1980s

| symbol_location = gb

| symbol = bus

| address = Talbot Road, Blackpool, England

| opened = {{Start date and age|1939|p=y}}

| closed = {{Start date and age|2002|p=y}}

| operator = Blackpool Borough Council

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| bus_operators =

| connections = Blackpool North railway station {{rail-interchange|gb|rail}} ({{Convert|200|m|yd}})

| map_type = United Kingdom Lancashire

| coordinates = {{coord|53.820221|-3.049855|region:GB|display=inline,title}}

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Blackpool bus station (known colloquially as Talbot Road bus station) was a bus station located on Talbot Road in Blackpool, Lancashire, England.[https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/perth-bus-users-drivers-warned-7630051 "Perth bus users and drivers are warned as roadworks set to start on Mill Street"] – Daily Record, 27 March 2016 The building, which is bounded by Talbot Road to the north, Cookson Street (the A586) to the east, Deansgate to the south and Topping Street to the west, is now a gym.

Built in 1939, as the ground floor of a multi-story car park on land known as Talbot Mews,[https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/heritage-and-retro/retro/the-buses-which-shaped-blackpools-transport-through-a-century-3301003 "The buses which shaped Blackpool's transport through a century"] – Blackpool Gazette, 8 July 2021 the bus station was taken out of use in 2002. It was preceded by an open-air motor-coach station.[https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/heritage-and-retro/retro/17-retro-pictures-of-blackpools-dark-dismal-and-seedy-talbot-road-bus-station-4084269 "17 retro pictures of Blackpool's 'dark, dismal and seedy' Talbot Road Bus Station"] – Blackpool Gazette, 29 March 2023

In 2019, the town completed the Blackpool Bus Hub, on Market Street and Corporation Street,{{Cite web |last=Rabbit |first=Jane |date=2022-05-01 |title=Blackpool Bus Hub and the Old Bus Station • Live Blackpool |url=https://www.liveblackpool.info/about/getting-here/blackpool-bus-hub/ |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=Blackpool |language=en-GB}} from which run Blackpool Transport's routes 5, 5A, 5B, 5C, 6, 7, 7A, 11, 11A, 11B and 14,[https://www.blackpooltransport.com/routes "Routes & Maps"] – Blackpool Transport and Stagecoach Cumbria & North Lancashire's routes 61 and 68.

File:Blackpool 512 HFR 512E (4347716052).jpg|Blackpool Transport's route 14 at the bus station in the 1980s, en route to Fleetwood