(14 Apr 2015, 10:07 pm)MurdnunoC wrote Northern used to operate the 92 prior to deregulation. I had a relative whom I used to visit in hospital (with my parents obviously) and I remember using that service (along with the 639) on the way back home. If I recall, it was usually allocated a double-decker so your recollection is correct.
Previous to the 92, it was the 26 that used to operate via Whinbury Road to the QE. A timetable from 1979 is available on my blog which I stopped updating quite some ago...
Aye, the 26 stopped going that way and went to Birtley at some point in the late 70's/early 80's.
It may have been when the metro started.
You should get that blog going again.
Used to read it (before I knew it was yours) and have had a look since.