(07 Aug 2025, 3:05 pm)Rob44 wrote Busways had zero single deckers when they took ofver from the pte. The 100 was the first single decker i think but they didn't have a separate machine.... when did that route begin? the metro centre opened late 1986?

Wrong, they did have single deckers as pointed out by my fellow posters. I lived a good 13 years before Thatcher destroyed Tyne and Wear Transport.