Does anyone know about the strike and all the buses I know there was one in 2012 one in 2010 and one a few years before that and the before 2010 used a lot of stagecoach mpd's and alx's but still pages to do with it and any others

Next lot of Metro Replacements are fast approaching...

Sunday 9th February
Service 900 will run between Byker & North Shields

Saturday 15th February
Service 900 will run between Heworth & Jarrow
Service 901 will run between Heworth & South Hylton

Sunday 16th February
Service 900 will run between Heworth & South Shields
Service 901 will run between Heworth & South Hylton

(10 Oct 2013, 9:32 am)danpick wrote Does anyone know about the strike and all the buses I know there was one in 2012 one in 2010 and one a few years before that and the before 2010 used a lot of stagecoach mpd's and alx's but still pages to do with it and any others

Can remember a strike in the early 2000s.
I was working in the Gateshead area and heading to work early one morning, I was stuck in the car around Felling/High Heworth for far too long.
Not sure if there was a replacement bus service that time, due to the amount of traffic on the road.