(30 Jun 2022, 6:59 pm)Andreos1 wrote Well before then too. I remember it running in the 80s.Was certainly a 254 operating to Sunderland in 1994 though appears to have had two different route variants sharing the number, in the way that operators like to do to confuse customers. It operated alongside the 154 which at that time didn't extend to Sunderland. A 254 certainly existed from 1994 up to 1998 and possibly beyond.
Pretty sure there was a shortlived 254 variant that took a slightly different route.
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