(04 Nov 2017, 8:28 pm)OrangeArrow49 wrote Thanks for the information. Any idea why the 100 isn't an X as it technically is an express service?
I have found some old pictures of the Busways 100. Seems odd it has such a big number for such an early service.
The 100 must have started when the Metrocentre (then MetroCentre) opened.
MetroCentre opened in October 1986, the 100 started in February 1987
100 MetroCentre Shuttle
Since the creation of Busways coincided with the opening of the MetroCentre shopping mall in Gateshead, this saw the creation and subsequent continuous operation of one of the few south of the River Tyne services of the Newcastle division, the 100 MetroCentre Shuttle which commenced in February 1987, initially using Reeve Burgess minibuses and ex-London Country Bristol LHS buses.
In 1989 these were replaced with Scania N113CRB Alexander PS buses.
100 Shuttle was operated in a dedicated livery of the newest delivered single deck vehicles. The livery has undergone several iterations, and now exists as a rather subdued route-branded version of the standard Stagecoach livery, albeit still operated by unique new Enviro300 single-deckers.