(11 hours ago)220631612 wrote It will be interesting too see if NECA and the Angel Network will look at bringing back open top services in the region. A North Shields Ferry-Whitley Bay Caravan Park service would likely prove a hit as would a South Shields-Sunderland one.

Be better to extend the Whitley Bay one to Newsham if you done that, it's quite difficult to get to the coast from Ashington etc and think the open bus from South Beach could be a quite popular, even if it's a bit of a novelty of just using the train.

Mind it'd be nice to have a bus route which does the whole of the Coast ie. Blyth - Whitley Bay - Cullercoats - Tynemouth - North Shields Ferry - North Shields Metro, in the Summer, never mind open top buses.