(04 Jun 2013, 10:00 pm)Andreos1 wrote Wonder who came up with the idea for the 638?
'Here lads, got an excellent idea - we will only need a pvr of about 8, we can share it between half of the depots, the problem drivers will be away all-day so cant hang around the depot, no-one will travel the entire route unless they want to get on the telly with Roy Castle, it will cover half the North East and travel between Ryton and Sunderland - Im gonna number it the 638!'
Taken from the April 1970 'Northern and Associated Companies' book of timetables, the image below shows at least one of the merged routes that eventually went on to form the legendary 638.