(17 Jun 2025, 7:25 pm)Andreos1 wrote Saw them today for the first time. 
Think there were 3 out when I was on Teesside earlier this morning.

Saw one on the 59, but it was the display that got me. 
'59 Stockton
Then 36 to Norton'.

Is this a new thing?

There is a trip on the 38 and 37 on a morning that on schooldays operate between Middlesbrough and Stockton as 59s to act as additional trips to take students to MacMillian Academy - these retain the chance of people boarding in Middlesbrough to travel beyond Stockton High Street so the destination shows this connection. Likewise there is a 38 journey on an afternoon that does similar on schooldays and runs as a 59 between Stockton and Middlesbrough for the same reason - and as such there is a 38 destination that says 'Stockton then 59 Middlesbrough'