(16 Mar 2014, 7:09 pm)Andreos Constantopolous wrote In the years leading up to the 739/740 being withdrawn, it didn't serve Pelton (just Newfield) - but may have done in years gone by.
It followed the 28/a route to Grange Villa, the current 78 route to Newfield and then dropped down to where Beamish Transport is, before returning under the railway viaduct (or vice versa).
There are old Northern flags up by where Pelton Station was, so there has obviously been a route between the two (possibly a forerunner of the last 739/740 route), but just not in the last few decades.
Pelton was linked to Grange Villa and Newfield with the 728 and now the 78.
The only buses up Pelaw Bank when I lived there in late 90s/early 00s, were the Consett buses, the Chester local minibus that went into Hilda Park (Scarlet Band have it now) and the 733 & 734.
Yup, you're right about the route of the 739/740 - it probably stayed the same until withdrawal. However, according to a map printed in my 1981 timetable booklet of the North Durham area, it was the 733 went up Station Lane between Pelton Fell and Pelton on its way to Ouston where it then terminated.