(05 Apr 2013, 11:31 am)AdamY wrote

(05 Apr 2013, 8:23 am)cbma06 wrote

(04 Apr 2013, 8:38 pm)AdamY wrote

(04 Apr 2013, 8:21 pm)Brandon wrote I don't want to go too off-topic, but thanks for bringing this up actually! There was a timetable for an open-top service between South Shields and Seaburn but for some reason must have been taken down. I've put it back online. It's Economic service 22 - which was running during the summer of 1997. Perhaps this had been numbered the 555 at some point?

http://northeastbuses.co.uk/forum/showth...hp?tid=144&pid=1478#pid1478

I'm pretty sure the 555 was allegedly operated by Northern. Economic/South Shields Busways might have taken over the operation of the service at some point in the early 90s but I think this is a re-introduction of this service rather than a renumbering. Maybe I'm wrong though.

Do you mean the 327/538 in the 80's from Whitley Bay to Seaburn, called Sea Front Services?.

The 538 is part of the 538/539 - 505/506 - E1/E2 lineage so it's definitely not that service as it still exists today (albeit with a slight route variation through Horsley Hill). The 327 eventually became the 333 in the early - mid 80's. It used to operate all the way to South Shields in 1974 (see attached timetable below) but by 1979 the route had been curtailed to terminate at North Shields Ferry. When did the 327/333 become an open-top service?