(09 Nov 2020, 8:32 pm)Andreos1 wrote It would be interesting to see a before and after, to compare the changes within Gateshead.
Id argue that Gateshead itself has got off fairly lightly compared to other areas. There will be the odd exception, but apart from western Gateshead (which had a stack of stuff contracted out to OK in the past), the network has been pretty stable in terms of commercial operations over the years.
https://web.archive.org/web/200702170748...ea%2Bmaps/ - 2005
https://web.archive.org/web/200711050333...Area+maps/ - 2007
https://web.archive.org/web/201002101147...Area+maps/ - 2009
The big changeover has seemed to have happened between 2005 and 2007 in the Gateshead area with more changes to 2009 to what we have pretty much have today, I don't really know the area enough though so the 2005 services don't mean much to me tbh. Doesn't seem to be that much of a change bar a few noticeable missing services. Interesting to see the slow demise of services in the Washington/Birtley areas in the 4 years though.
One thing that's interesting though is the XLines services didn't exist at all in 2009 or didn't have an evening service. Never realised the X30 was a replacement for the 98 and 44 through Whickham though, always thought it existed.