(14 May 2025, 8:41 pm)S830OFT wrote Can anybody remember the original route of the 6 in Sunderland? Just going off other people's version it started at Witherwack went over the QA Bridge via Pallion & ended up at Grangetown but can't find any old timetables or even photos that show the route & where it went.
(14 May 2025, 9:02 pm)Michael wrote I think the 6 was:
Witherwack - Southwick - Pallion - Holburn Road - Springwell Road - Premier Road - Grangetown ASDA - Grangetown
I'm not sure where in Grangetown it terminated.
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I remember seeing it pass me on Springwell Road when finishing school.
The 6 and the 18/19 routes were destroyed when they did work on the Queen Alex Bridge.
(14 May 2025, 9:34 pm)Acky81 wrote The 6 actually went from central bus station to grangetown then to witherwack via the route mentioned. Weird as I thought about it whilst driving along Holborn road the other day
(15 May 2025, 8:56 pm)DaveFromUpNorth wrote service 6 off memory went. Witherwack Carley hill (hannaman court area) into southwick green. over the QA bridge and when Pallion Retail Park first opened used that stop outside iceland) up to St lukes church right all the way up st lukes Road to Front road and went all the way along to leechmere asda down to Grangetown bus stops then did corporation road (bottom road past old littlewoods call centre) into town
(15 May 2025, 10:47 pm)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.
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.
Here is a timetable for it, which I got off of the Bygone Era when it worked, and doesn't just come up with an error code
