(31 May 2015, 6:46 pm)MurdnunoC wrote There was also one based at the depot in South Gosforth.
I recall going to open days there as a bairn and playing with the controls in the cab. If memory serves it also doubled as pseudo-simulator where the driver encountered various hazards on route. I say 'pseudo-simulator' as in reality it was just a taped video played on loop. Now matter how good your reactions were, you still caused some accident. Most would fall for it first time round, but on either the second or third attempt the illusion was shattered. I was not impressed.
This might have been the one on display at the Garden Festival but I'm not 100% sure.
Not sure whether the one at the Garden Festival had a simulator.
Spookily enough, it is 25 years since the festival opened.
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nort...25-9240847