(10 Mar 2022, 12:14 am)stagecoachbusdepot wrote Welcome was a good few years before Magic Bus - Busways had taken over Welcome in 1993 (prior to Stagecoach era) and discontinued the name in 1995.  Magic Bus didn't come on the scene until 1997.

The money there got from purchasing welcome passenger transport was used to set up HMB and used a depot at Felling then there started Welco and there had the old Jolly Bus depot at South Hylton and operated the W20/W21 plus other services in Sunderland and Newcastle, South Hylton had a good bus services through those years with busways having the 8/9/9A and have buses in front of welco with the 8A/20A and 20B, and northern having a couple of double deckers on the 126 in front of Welco W21 as that went up Chester road and Nookside then down to South Hylton , if I remember rightly magic bus started up in Newcastle for competition against HMB buses, I think old welcome depot was just around the corner of saltmeadows depot


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