In 1959 there were twenty-seven Corporation Transport systems in the Red
Rose County. These were significantly reduced in 1969 with the creation
of the Passenger Transport Executives in Manchester and Liverpool and
further reduced in 1974 following the reorganisation of local
government, when boundaries were changed and new administrative boroughs
created. All but two of the remaining systems were privatised during the
1990s, following the deregulation of bus services in 1986. Rossendale
clung on to its own transport organisation until 2018 when it too was
bought out by Transdev, leaving just Blackpool Transport as the only
council-owned operator within the redrawn county boundary. This book
picks up the story following local government reorganisation in 1974 and
uses a comprehensive selection of photographs to depict the closing
years of all of Lancashire's Corporation Transport systems.