(05 Apr 2024, 10:01 pm)ASX_Terranova wrote Were the 325/326 (later 85/86) well used services. Were they always every 20 mins each way.
Used to be alright at one point, but they never really updated the route though so it missed places like Silverlink, and continued to serve Norham Road instead so it started to die for it to replaced by the 310 (now 307) and the rest of the route pretty much binned off completely. Rake Lane was horribly saturated for buses at the time aswell with that, the 308 and 309 all running. You also still had all sorts of local services like the 81 etc still running aswell.
Used to be every 30 minutes though from what I can remember, combining with the 315/316 (the Newcastle boards) to create a 15 minute service from Norham Road to Norham Road (basically both sides of the Coast Road). It may have been more frequent though.
North Tyneside has been completely butchered over the years though, as an understatement.
Btw: https://www.nexus.org.uk/sites/default/f...%20map.pdf - That was the Nexus replacement for the other half for a bit but that route really didn't make sense as it went from Whitley Bay to completely no-where with excluding the hospital, pretty much nothing inbetween.