(16 Nov 2016, 12:18 pm)RBZ 5459 wrote Nothing has been mentioned publicly by the NEBPT about the 2017 calendar as far as I'm aware, apart from the 'Metrocentre'.

I always feel the Whitley Bay one could be combined with the Classic Car Show The Links has in September, as a joint event like how Seaburn is. But they are organised by different groups I suppose - with the Whitley Bay car show entirely North Tyneside Council's doing. We (THV) were invited to the Classic Car Show again this year via the Trust and took Atlantean 290, they had buses on the concrete (like the rally) but with cars on grass areas. I think many people are put off by the NEBPT Whitley Bay Rally by the fact that there will be fewer bus attendees.

That probably is the contributing factor for putting people off, I think another is the location, just in the sense that unless you live reasonably local, it can be a bit of a trek and a pain to get to especially on a Sunday. It's much the same story for the rally at Shildon Locomotion, just about all the people I saw at Shildon this year lived south of Durham with the odd person from Teesside as well.