(24 Oct 2021, 11:51 am)54APhotography wrote 99 is a secured service to provide a direct link from Castletown to the Royal Hospital, it will stay and with vehicle use off school contracts, in term time will be a decker.

Busways have thrown the 18 up for withdrawal before, but it survived!

I'm actually surprised it has, there's been constant route changes to the 18 since the 19 was withdrawn....... wonder if we'll expect more in the new year?

I'm expecting service changes to all the Sunderland services in the new year - now they've had some time to asses the numbers after the lockdowns.

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(24 Oct 2021, 11:51 am)cbma06 wrote There starting killing of the 18/19 when there started withdrawl of the Sunday journeys then evening journeys trying to force passengers to change in city centre for forward travel, downfall for service 6 was when the qa bridge was shut for maintenance and thr 18/19 took over most of the route


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The closure of the Queen Alex Bridge caused those services to be withdrawn/changed... the 6 was a handy route too... I wonder if they'll of kept those routes going if the bridge never shut?


Edit: was 2005 when the bridge shut for maintenance... was it really that long ago?