(05 Jan 2014, 1:34 am)CatsFast101 wrote What the idea of a transfare? What does it do and if it's a nexus/Tyne & wear ticket why can't it be used any further than Royal Courts on the 20 to Durham?
It enables you to transfer between buses, ferry and Metro within Tyne & Wear for a one direction journey.
If I can remember right, it can be used once on the connecting mode of transport - but you have a 90mins to transfer onto that second vehicle, from purchase - I haven't used one for a while, so stand corrected if the terms have changed.
Say you were in Sunderland at 17:00 and wanted to get to a mates house in Whitley Bay for a party - but weren't coming back until the next day.
Rather than by a Day Rover or some other day ticket, you could buy a transfare as long as you were on the Metro by 18:30.
So you get the 9 to North Shields and then jump on the Metro, using your transfare ticket.
The ticket can be used beyond Royal Courts - just not issued.
I imagine this is down to zone/pricing issues.
For kids (before TWPTE/Nexus brought out the day tickets) the transfare was only 5p more than a single ticket.
So a 5p single to Gateshead could be turned into a 10p transfare to the coast.
As we got older, the single fares gradually increased over the years by 5p increments, with the transfare doing the same.