(30 Oct 2023, 4:09 pm)Rob44 wrote This looks like hub and spoke to me????I never claimed otherwise.
However, you'll see on both maps that the spokes are connected through other services. In the Newcastle example, we have the 49 (deemed as the 'Outerline', I think the 41 was deemed as the 'Innerline', IIRC) connecting Throckley with West Denton, Kingston Park, Gosforth, Heaton before heading towards Wallsend.
In Gateshead, you had services like the 616/617 which connected Blaydon with the West End of Newcastle, largely because of the employment offered by Stella Ppwer Station, at the time. Or the 715 which connected Rowlands Gill with Burnopfield and Stanley.
Those maps weren't intended to prove or disprove anything, but to provide a little bit of historical perspective on how thr network looked around 40 years ago (rounded up before anyone claims it was 37 years ago, and not 40).
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