(11 Aug 2013, 4:49 pm)big mac wrote There was certainly enough passengers that used to travel beyond Gateshead and into Newcastle on the 51 to justify it running to there.
The reason (or excuse) that was given at the time I think, although I'm not 100% sure, was that it ceased to serve Newcastle to improve the reliability of the service.
I've made a wee suggestion on Service Suggestions for the area.
Re- Classic. When they 'dropped the battle' (my memory is vague of the time) and GNE won/paid out whatever. What happened to the Classic fleet? They can't have needed all those buses, the 21 had a large amount of older stock all in livery, I assume they were scrapped?