(07 Mar 2019, 10:06 am)Ianthegoon wrote I seem to recall there used to be an open-top service in South Shields at one time, but I haven't heard anything about it recently - is that one still going, or did I imagine it?

They tried a couple of attempts at South Shields with the final one being the South Shields Shuttle which failed big time. It only operated from the Market to the New Crown a journey of less than 10 minutes and operated 5 minutes after the E1 which ran the same route. 

In the old Busways days we had the successful 22 service which operated all the way South Shields to Sunderland with the 2 open toppers. That should be reinvented.