(05 Jun 2016, 6:12 pm)stagecoachbusdepot wrote Think it was even longer ago than that - don't recall any Sunderland Busways service 1, though I know in corporation days there was a 1 which partly became the 101 - but it was long gone by '86 I think?
I don't think there's been a service numbered '1' in the days post de-regulation.
The '101' of which you speak operated by between CBS and Grangetown and was withdrawn sometime between May 1983 and May 1984.