(11 May 2014, 6:27 pm)citaro5284 wrote Normally driver changeovers are done with vans, 1009 is used for getting drivers home who do not have their own transport (but only on a late shift finishing after midnight), but its main stay is at Percy Main to ferry staff who are finishing at North Shields back to Percy Main who have been on an early start to collect their own transport.
Thanks. Just couldn't work out why it was going into a housing estate at around lunch time. I suppose Shield Row doesn't have any buses on a Sunday so with the driver coming from Consett I suppose there was no choice but to transport the driver home.