(11 Apr 2015, 12:37 pm)MurdnunoC wrote The first bus station was located next to Carrefour (old Asda) on the incline leading up to the A1 (then A69). The Red Quadrant was the first bit of the Metrocentre to open and this bus station lasted for around six months (maybe less). The second bus station was located next to Marks and Spencer's shortly after the Green Quadrant opened (13th October 1986) - this lasted for about a year. The cinema opened on 16th October 1987 so I'm guessing the third (and first permanent) bus station would have been opened around the same time. The Nationals must have been painted Orange sometime in 1987.
Easyway weren't that visible only operating on the routes discussed in this thread. However North Eastern Bus Services had a few services operating around the Gateshead area including one - the 92 - which served Winlatter Gardens etc. They had Nationals and Coaches which were in a green and cream livery.
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It is a shame you don't have the timetables for those services.
If the North Eastern went via Whinlatter like you have said; I have used it. Just have no recollection of them at all.
There seems to be a void in my memory, apart from the Orange Nationals and then the Go Gateshead minilinks in the early 90's.
There was a gap, where there wasn't anything operating prior to the Minilinks - guessing this is when the independents gave up.