(08 Jan 2015, 9:45 pm)mb134 wrote That's really weird, it's amazing that it's taken me this long to find out it used to be different, however judging by the Northumbria buses, I couldn't have missed it by long? (I was born '98, and probably started to get the bus into there when I was 2 or 3?). 

The old old design looks fantastic, although I imagine problems could have been caused by break downs etc?

(Am I the only one who tried to figure out which Enviro was exiting on the new picture? )

According to the Chronicle link I put up on the previous page, Peter Beardsley opened it in 1996 - so just a couple of years off.