(11 Mar 2022, 9:00 am)Andreos1 wrote Can't remember that second service at all! What year/years was that? Just 86 or beyond? I remember a minilink down Whinlatter Road (Gateshead to the QE perhaps - via the Racecourse Estate that set off from the Bensham Bank/Lobley Hill set of stands at Gateshead. M92?). But not this one.

Yep. October 86. January 1987 was the next set of major changes and, arguably, when the era of laissez-faire bus operations post deregulation really began.

Edit: Another little snippet of information regarding Low Fell Coaches (and Gateshead in General).



Taken from Buses Vol.38 No.379 October 1986