(21 Sep 2024, 12:16 pm)ASX_Terranova wrote New Service 164:
Sunderland to Easington Lane via Royal Hospital, Broadway, Hastings Hill, Shiney Row, Herrington Burn, Newbottle, Houghton, Hetton, Peat Carr & Sheriffs Moor.
Would replace Nexus 168 between Hetton & Easington Lane whilst providing direct links from Easington Lane, Hetton and Houghton to Penshaw Monument & Royal Hospital.
It's one of those routes that lost all of their services.
Early 2000s, you had 160, 161, 163 and 164, all doing various routes around that Houghton/Herrington stretch. 164 went via Penshaw/Hastings Hill, the rest via East Herrington and Durham Road. I went to college there around the time and you didn't half get some good variety in buses.
Of course, these days there's not a college there, so I'd doubt there'd be as much footfall as there once was.