(09 Nov 2020, 11:23 pm)Storx wrote 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.
Sorry, thought I'd replied/acknowledged this the other day.
Yeah, I think Classic had some contracted Nexus stuff in the era you mention. Apart from the 168, there was work around Ryton.
OK had some Nexus/TWPTE stuff from Gateshead to Clara Vale in the years prior and I think the Classic contracts replaced it in part.
The slow curtailment of services in Birtley which aren't the 21 is something which has frustrated me for a long time. Well established routes like the 721, 777, 26, 183 etc are gone and haven't been fully replaced, if at all. Sad.
Adrian did a map of Washington a few years back, with a before and after comparison. The changes were stark.
You've mentioned North Tyneside and obviously Sunderland isn't a stable network at all.