(07 Mar 2023, 8:32 am)V514DFT wrote They seem to enjoy barfing up the same ideas from back in the day that dont work, and its always the 1, and one of the 90s they do it with, the 1 is long enough, leave it alone, it was only 18 months ago they reverted to 1 back to Whitley Bay- Gateshead, it doesnt work
2016 17 merged with the 96 and renumbered 11
2019 11 curtailed at Wallsend, replaced with the 1/ 1A- Failed
2020? 1 renumbered 1A/1B, 1 withdrawn- Failed
2021 1A/1B curtailed at Gateshead, renumbered back to 1- It Works
Thats just from the last 6 and a bit years, im sure theres plenty more before 2016
The 301 has been like that since the 80s at least.
Someone may want to correct me, but it's been Kibblesworth along Saltwell Road, then Gateshead, then the Metrocentre when that opened, back to Gateshead, then a continued swap between Kibblesworth and Wrekenton via Durham Road or Gateshead and the Metrocentre ever since.
One advantage of the Metrocentre extension in the 90s, was that it had a slight variation and went along past Whickham Thorns and Market Lane. Immense at full-pelt on an Atlantean!