(05 Jan 2014, 6:31 pm)ADLEnviro wrote Not sure of your age andreos1 but you have just jogged my memory of something there..............................do you remember 5 riders. When it went up to 10p you could buy 5 individual singles from a metro ticket machine for 35p, valid on all modes of transport in Tyne and Wear, was a nice buzz when you put it in the metro barrier and it didn't cancel it or you were mates with the bus driver and he didn't rip it in half. Ohhhh the fun I had as a teenager.
I can't remember those at all.
Can remember it being 5p, then going up to 10p in late 80's early 90's - but no recollection of those tickets.
With the buses being extended over the river into Newcastle, a single was always enough.
A transfare to the Metrocentre and back or to the Coast always seemed such good value that maybe we were blinkered as to other tickets.