(15 Oct 2020, 11:09 pm)anvil1984 wrote Sorry to the admins, this is going so off topic (being old services and Arriva based) but to dig further with useful / useless info 

X8 / X9 Timetables
https://web.archive.org/web/201112242120...x?id=10575

Nexus 2011 map showing X8 / X9, don't think the route had changed up to that point
https://web.archive.org/web/201604050716...%20Pro.pdf

Nexus 2008 Map Showing 44
https://web.archive.org/web/200812210931...0guide.pdf

Basically the 44 used to go Non-stop St Marys Place to Willington Square then all stops Norham Road North to Whitley Bay. 
The  X9 ran non stop from Sandyford Road / Portland Terrace to High Farm Coast Road / Station Road before working the 337 route to the south end of the Cobalt, doing its own route through the Cobalt before picking up the 44 route in New York

1 thing doing this research has made me remember how superior the old North Tyneside network used to be Pre-Cobalt