(15 May 2025, 10:47 pm)Hi I stagecoachbusdepot wrote The 6 didnt go along Premier Road, it operated as you said Witherwack to Springwell Road then down Durham Road to the Barnes, along Queen Alex Road past St Aidans and the Eye Infirmary to Grangetown and then along Corporation Road to CBS. What was until recently the 18A was the last remnant covering the schools at peaks.It’s shocking how far the Sunderland Stagecoach network has been scaled back over the years. The glory days were defo the PTE years and maybe the first 10 years of privatisation. After that it’s cuts dressed up as rationalisation. Give it another 10 years and there’ll be a rump service.
It was the 19 toward Grangetown and 18 toward Grindon that operated along Premier Road, back when they were circulars. Mad to think how many options thre were for links back then, bit like the number of services to Roker/Seaburn compared to just the Es really now.
There was a period when it was joined up with the 7 to run as circular type services, connecting I think at Grangetown, this would have been early 2000s.
The 6 was butchered with the closure of the QA bridge then used as excuse to bin off entirely.
In the early Busways years it retained the 106 number as it was not operated commercially by Busways, and the northern terminus was initially Southwick, later extended to Seaburn (by then operated commercially as the 6) and didnt switch to Witherwack until later.
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