(16 Jul 2026, 4:39 pm)col87 wrote So to go back to my original question to stop a service starting outside of the NEMSA to operate commercially into it so in theory a service from Hartlepool- Metrocentre and Newcastle could be set up as long as it was not franchised.
Yep. And going back to 1986 and the days of the PTEs, some services did operate commercially into Newcastle outside of the remit of Tyne and Wear PTE