(30 Jun 2022, 6:31 pm)F114TML wrote It was in 1997 (from the Bygone area):Well before then too. I remember it running in the 80s.
The extension to Dryburn Hospital was cut in November 1997. Sunderland extension was cut before 2002 (which is when they started putting timetables online).
Pretty sure there was a shortlived 254 variant that took a slightly different route.