(11 Mar 2022, 9:00 am)Andreos1 wrote Can't remember that second service at all! What year/years was that? Just 86 or beyond? I remember a minilink down Whinlatter Road (Gateshead to the QE perhaps - via the Racecourse Estate that set off from the Bensham Bank/Lobley Hill set of stands at Gateshead. M92?). But not this one.

The Whinlatter Road service lasted into Go Ahead ownership, and indeed through the move of the Low Fell operation to the former OK Travel depot  at Team Valley. I’m sure it was allocated route number 22.

(11 Mar 2022, 8:01 pm)MurdnunoC wrote For the purposes of completion, here's the state of play in Gateshead when first set of post deregulation revisions happened in January 1987.





As you can see, rhe second Low Fell Coaces service survived the first call.

Fascinating stuff, thanks for sharing.

Interesting to see what went before for say Gateshead - Birtley.  Different options back then, now it's the 21 or bust.