(14 Nov 2022, 10:04 am)tcts24 wrote Think my favorite to date is a feew weeks ago on route 1 terminating at Seaton Carew. Obviously when I got to Elzabeth way, I'd left the destination as "Seaton Carew". It's company policy to stop anyway even though you know they won't get on. So stopped for a man and small girl on the sea front and immediately told him "It's only going as far as the Schooner", to which he replied "but it says town centre on the front". I then told him it doesn't, it says Seaton Carew and repeated that I finish at the Schooner. Off I went and a few stops later stopped for a woman and of course told her I finish at the Schooner. Her reply was "but it says Seaton Carew on the front". Now this confused me, so I looked blankly at her for a few seconds and finally replied "it does and we're in Seaton and this is where it finishes and I'm going back to the depot". I've no idea where she thought she was.Ex-GNE driver told me this story. He was going onto the 60.
He came into Park Lane with NIS on the front, loaded up the coffin dodgers going to Seaham (without changing the board) and as a joke made the announcements say "This is the 9 service to Jarrow". Ohh how I wish I'd have been there to see their faces
