(05 Apr 2018, 4:20 am)Andreos1 wrote I can't remember the 27 operating via Old Durham Road, but can remember the 51/52 going via Sunderland Road. For a period, seemingly operated only by Mk1 Metrobuses.
I can remember the 27 operating along Durham Road between Gateshead and Dryden Road, prior to it shifting to Prince Consort Road. Never quite understood the change and why that was the service picked to go along past the library etc.
The early 2000's was my lost period for public transport, but if I remember right, the 27 had been played about with quite a bit leading up to that period.
An extension to Shields to replace the 527 came about I think and that could have tied in with the period around the Shields depot closure.
I seem to remember there was also a period where the 51/52 stopped operating along Easedale Gardens to/from Wrekenton and I think that was mid/late 90's. May have been slightly earlier.
Yep, I used to catch the 27 on Dryden road. It pretty much followed the route of the quaylink thru low fell. Lived near felling metro before I lived there and buses along dunderSund road were like rocking horse manure. When the metro went down and I had to get a bus home, instead, I'd have to walk down from felling Square.