Your right about the S1 it was very short to make it at least a normal bus GCT could've extended the route to Haven Point Swimming Baths/end of ocean road where the E1 , 50 and fomer route 516 go.

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(17 Jun 2026, 4:37 pm)Rapidsnap wrote Those 12 shorts would have been when it did a one way loop around Wallsend (which they don't do now), distance of just over a mile.

The 60 was a circular route, but it was over 1km just from the Interchange to the sage.

Think after the G1, think the next two routes would have been....
A1 - Metrocentre Bus Station to Asda - https://flickr.com/photos/gjm-photogenic/26562624891
IKEA - Metrocentre Bus Station to Ikea - https://flickr.com/photos/gjm-photogenic/11919978616

Some other route for contention are...
105 - Byker Shopping Park Shuttle - https://flickr.com/photos/gjm-photogenic/32152633304
Tall Ship Shuttle from Gateshead to Sage - https://flickr.com/photos/gjm-photogenic/51834841849

Sometimes the farely new route 644 would only run Beetween Metrocentre Bus Station-ASDA Via yellow car park and IKEA.