(06 Jun 2021, 8:40 pm)Storx wrote Believe the idea was because you used them to connect to the Coaster at Wallsend and to highlight them running with the Coaster through Howdon.

It's become a bit lost now though since the 42/42A was curtailed at Wallsend and the 19 was added to it which doesn't connect to the Coaster (sensibly) at all (if it's even part of it anymore since there's not enough buses nowadays) and both routes go nowhere near the coast infact they run parallel to it.

Was mainly thinking of the 11 when I posted like, but yeah granted the 42/42A don't have much of a coast connection - bar perhaps the idea that they take you to (nearer) the coast.