(08 Mar 2022, 7:06 pm)ifm001 wrote Heres one for us older members of the forum.

I've just been remembering some of the services and operators that came about on or around deregulation October 1986.

Obviously you have the main operators and some of the well known independents such as

OK Travel
Low Fell Coaches
Catch a Bus
Resby Coaches
Hunters

But there are a couple that I can remember but unable to locate details on Google search etc.

These are

North Eastern Buses 
Trojan Travel

Both of these operated in a livery similar to NBC green at the time.

North Eastern operated services in the Gateshead area numbered 91/92 I believe and operated similar to 93/94 loop, so will have been a competition service 

Trojan operated as the Trojan Outer Circle (not sure if there was an inner circle) and this was Heworth to Washington.

Any one remember these and got any info on them?

NB. I may have queried this many moons ago but can't remember responses and can't work out how to direct search either scrolling through everything

North Eastern were based on the Team Valley at BRS. Altona were based there too. North Eastern ran the 92 Gateshead to Kibblesworth route.

Trojan's route was basically a works service serving the industrial estates at Washington. Anyone could use it though. I did it in the late 1980s. The driver was the owner and he seemed to know most of the passengers. A lot of them seemed to work at a textiles plant. The service went all the way around Washington. I remember getting off at Concord and photographing the coach. He only had two vehicles.

Charles