Purely from an arty point of view I love that Metrocentre Super Shuttle one

It is quite eye catching, I quite like the Busways ones

It was the naked woman on the network maps which got my attention!

Update: 08/09/13

FTAO: Brandon - Sorry in advance if I've completely destroyed your section! I'm sure you'll fix it if/when you come back! :p

In the Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive thread, we welcome three complete guides to bus, rail and ferry timetables from 1974 and 1979.
There are two examples from 1974. This is because, up until 1978/9, timetables were geographically separated into the locales of Newcastle/Gateshead; North Tyneside; South Tyneside; and Sunderland. Dextrovert has kindly supplied the Newcastle/Gateshead guide (which has been posted here and here, and AdamY has also kindly supplied the South Tyneside guide to complement it.
From 1978/9 - until 1986 - all timetables were combined into a huge 600+ paged booklet. The 1979 guide that Dextrovert has also supplied has also been uploaded, and this can be found here.

These files are all pretty big, so will take some time to load. AdamY has scanned his South Tyneside guide, but Dextrovert has taken photographs of each and every page and combined them into a .pdf document for us - so they will both look slightly different in terms of quality.

As we all know, Brandon is taking some time away from North East Buses. In his absence, I hope to work alongside all members who contribute files on a regular basis and upload/update files as they ask. I think most of us will know that I concentrate more on present day events (which is why I manage the fleet lists/fleet news sections of the site), so I'm perhaps not best suited to this area... If anyone feels that the above update should have been done in a different way and I'm destroying everything... please tell me! :p

Thanks all.

Update: 27/10/13

A huge thank you to Liam and Dan for taking cover for me in my absence; I'm very grateful!

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In light of some of the proposed changes in the Sunderland and South Tyneside areas, I've uploaded these four timetables to the Go North East thread -

• ShowStopper 26,26A Sunderland - Castletown - Boldon - Jarrow / Heworth (July 2011)
  
• SimpliCity 36 Sunderland - Town End Farm (December 2011)
  
• ShowStopper 99 Sunderland - Hylton Castle - Seaburn (August 2011)
  
• Red Arrow X3 Sunderland - Boldon - Newcastle (August 2011)
  

This is in addition to -

• 21 Throckley - Newcastle - Byker - Wallsend (November 2002)
  
• 51,52 Gateshead - Heworth - Wrekenton - Gateshead - Newcastle (January 2008)
  
• 64,65 Gateshead - Dunston (January 2006)
  
• 137 Sunderland - Hollycarrside - Ryhope Hospitals (January 2006)
  
• X10 Middlesbrough - Newcastle (May 2006)
  
• Pronto X20,X21 Bishop Auckland - Durham - Sunderland / Newcastle (October 2011)
  
• X22 Ferryhill - Durham - Newton Hall - Chester-le-Street - Newcastle (April 2006)
  
• Coach X23 Bishop Auckland - Durham - Carrville - Gateshead - Newcastle (February 2010)
  

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We also welcome a brand new thread for Stanley Buses, with the following services included -

• MC1 Lanchester - Burnhope - Quaking Houses - South Moor - Stanley - Annfield Plain - Burnhopfield - Whickham - MetroCentre - Newcastle (February 2006)
  
• MC2 Stanley - Shield Row - MetroCentre (July 2006)
  
• 50 Throckley - General Hospital - Newcastle Central Station (July 2005)
  
• 870 Consett - Hexham (July 2003)
  

Update: 27/10/13

A huge thank you to Liam and Dan for taking cover for me in my absence; I'm very grateful!

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In light of some of the proposed changes in the Sunderland and South Tyneside areas, I've uploaded these four timetables to the Go North East thread -

• ShowStopper 26,26A Sunderland - Castletown - Boldon - Jarrow / Heworth (July 2011)
  
• SimpliCity 36 Sunderland - Town End Farm (December 2011)
  
• ShowStopper 99 Sunderland - Hylton Castle - Seaburn (August 2011)
  
• Red Arrow X3 Sunderland - Boldon - Newcastle (August 2011)
  

This is in addition to -

• 21 Throckley - Newcastle - Byker - Wallsend (November 2002)
  
• 51,52 Gateshead - Heworth - Wrekenton - Gateshead - Newcastle (January 2008)
  
• 64,65 Gateshead - Dunston (January 2006)
  
• 137 Sunderland - Hollycarrside - Ryhope Hospitals (January 2006)
  
• X10 Middlesbrough - Newcastle (May 2006)
  
• Pronto X20,X21 Bishop Auckland - Durham - Sunderland / Newcastle (October 2011)
  
• X22 Ferryhill - Durham - Newton Hall - Chester-le-Street - Newcastle (April 2006)
  
• Coach X23 Bishop Auckland - Durham - Carrville - Gateshead - Newcastle (February 2010)
  

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We also welcome a brand new thread for Stanley Buses, with the following services included -

• MC1 Lanchester - Burnhope - Quaking Houses - South Moor - Stanley - Annfield Plain - Burnhopfield - Whickham - MetroCentre - Newcastle (February 2006)
  
• MC2 Stanley - Shield Row - MetroCentre (July 2006)
  
• 50 Throckley - General Hospital - Newcastle Central Station (July 2005)
  
• 870 Consett - Hexham (July 2003)
  

Welcome back =)

Cheers Michael! It's good to be back

Hi there, just an update, I'm still working on the May '84 and March '86 PTE timetables, just taking longer than I thought it would for the 1140 pages in total. Hope to get them finished within the week. Stay tuned.

Update: 26/11/13

Just a small update... A new thread has been added to the Bus Operators section: Munro's of Jedburgh. This is a dedicated thread for old timetables and discussion on the former operations of Munro's, where timetables have already been uploaded for the services how they operated when Munro's sadly ceased trading earlier this year. If you have any further content you'd like to add to this section, please PM me.

We're still looking at completely re-vamping the Bygone Era section where all content that has been uploaded to our server can immediately be added to the site and be ready for download. With Brandon departing the site again, I'm rather unsure indeed of where he finished off and where I ought to start - this will aid me in this continued venture, and be of greater convenience to us all in future when new content is sent to us to be uploaded. We anticipate that this update will be released at some point over the Christmas holidays, though could easily be delayed to be launched for the New Year depending on how often Liam and I have a night to devote to NEB.

I'll keep you posted as and when updates are ready for release.

Dan

I've found a few old (well, 2010/11) timetables when searching around for something. Sadly, I don't have a working scanner, so is there any other way I can send 'em?

I've found a few old (well, 2010/11) timetables when searching around for something. Sadly, I don't have a working scanner, so is there any other way I can send 'em?

Dextrovert sent us clear photographs of the files he has contributed towards the Bygone Era and cropped them down a little too so that it's just the timetable/page that is shown.
dan@northeastbuses.co.uk is the place you need to send 'em to after that - mark it with Bygone Era so I can find them when I eventually get round to sorting it out though. :p

Dextrovert sent us clear photographs of the files he has contributed towards the Bygone Era and cropped them down a little too so that it's just the timetable/page that is shown.
dan@northeastbuses.co.uk is the place you need to send 'em to after that - mark it with Bygone Era so I can find them when I eventually get round to sorting it out though. :p

No problem!

Update: 27/11/13

Hey, I'm getting good at this - aren't I?

In this update, we see the introduction of a new thread: "Tyne & Wear Bus Strategy - Quality Contracts Scheme". As the consultation for the scheme has now ended, all consultation responses are available on Nexus' website. As such, we have archived the .pdf files for historical viewing, as it is highly unlikely that Nexus will host the documents on their website forever. A further 50 files have been collected towards the thread's expansion so far. I endeavour to get these uploaded as soon as possible, and in the mean time, feel free to PM me with further content.

Update: 12/12/13

As the year draws to a close and I'm off for my Christmas holidays, it seemed appropriate to give the Bygone Era an update that was well due.

This update sees the reconstruction of the "Stagecoach North East - Busways, Transit, Economic, Favourite" thread so that it is in the format which Brandon introduced to a number of threads which had a great deal of content.

Following on from a thread which was added to the "Stagecoach North East" section of the forum last night containing a fleet list dating back to October 2003, latterly leading to a suggestion of archiving the material contained within the thread, Richard Smiles has shared further content with me via e-mail so that it could be archived on the public domain, for all to see and download providing they are members of the North East Buses forum.

It is with my pleasure therefore to introduce the Fleet Lists & Allocation post to the aforementioned reconstructed Stagecoach North East and former identities thread in the Bygone Era. All of Richard's fleet lists (dating back to 1985!) complement the fleet allocation dating back to 1997 which cbma06 sent to us originally upon original thread creation.
This section now contains 100 files, with more soon to be added. We have a complete monthly set of updated fleet lists from 2011 to add, and further fleet lists which were updated somewhat more irregularly from the early 2000s, similar to those under the 2001 header for Tees.

May I take this opportunity to thank Richard Smiles once more on behalf of the entire community for contributing these files to the Bygone Era. It's much appreciated, and will certainly help towards the "Vehicle History" section of North East Buses' fleet lists too. A win/win situation for both enthusiasts which follow the past, present and future of the Stagecoach North East fleet.

Dan

It's been four years since the last update in this thread, and now that the re-creation of the new-look Archive is well underway, we're going to resurrect this thread to provide more regular updates of what's new to the Archive. We've now got over 750 files on the Archive, with plenty more to be added over the coming months.


What's New: 14/01/2018

All of the existing timetables on Go North East's website, some of which are due to change from 28th January 2018, have now been uploaded to the Archive. These timetables are predominantly from 2017, though some are marginally older than that.

23 Tyne & Wear PTE files have been uploaded - these are:

• Local Service Guide - Gateshead and Felling - 1981
  
• Newcastle Services - Fare Tables - 1973
  
• Local Service Guide - Newcastle - 1981
  
• Local Service Guide - Newcastle - 1984
  
• Newcastle Service Revisions - 1975
  
• Works services in Newcastle
  
• North Bridge Street changes - Sunderland - 1978
  
• Local Service Guide - North Tyneside - 1981
  
• Ryton and Crawcrook service changes - 1983
  
• Local Service Guide - South Tyneside - 1984
  
• Sunderland District - Bus & Rail Route Map - 1978
  
• Sunderland Service Guide - 1986
  
• Sunderland Town Bus Services - 1973
  
• 138 (Sunderland - Hollycarrside) timetable
  
• 34/35/79 (Denton Square - Wallsend) timetable
  
• 41 (Eldon Square - Freeman Hospital) timetable
  
• 49 (Central Station - Kingston Park) timetable
  
• 57 (Gateshead Metro - Heworth Metro) timetable
  
• 58/59 (Wardley - Heworth - Leam Lane - Gateshead - Dunston) timetable
  
• 612, 638/639, 641 (Newcastle - Ryton - Winlaton - Sunderland) timetable
  
• Metroline 3 (Haymarket - Tynemouth via Benton) timetable
  
• 135/136 (Sunderland Circular) timetable
  
• Shields Ferry - 1967 timetable
  

If you're interested in viewing any of the above content, click here and use the search facility, using some of the terms above.

What's New: 16/03/2018

No update for quite a while, but managed to upload something this evening. It's a network guide for the Venture Transport Co., dating back to August 1963.
http://northeastbuses.co.uk/archive/item.php?id=778

What's New: 16/03/2018

No update for quite a while, but managed to upload something this evening. It's a network guide for the Venture Transport Co., dating back to August 1963.
http://northeastbuses.co.uk/archive/item.php?id=778

It no worky for me 

It no worky for me 

Not sure why, but it's disappeared... Will have a look into it.

Not sure where to put this so mods feel free to move if this is the wrong place.

This is a plea for help - if anyone has access to any old Busways or TWPTE local transport guides/maps please can you get in touch via private message if you can help populate a new feature I’m trying to develop for my website, tracking the history of Busways services over the years. I’m starting with Sunderland but will cover Shields and Newcastle over time. I’ve got various gaps I need to try to find info/dates/routes for – rather than me clogging the forum with lists of questions though please just get in touch if you can help.

Likewise, it would be great to illustrate it with photos so if you have any Busways photos I could include (either directly or embedding from e.g. flickr) please also drop me a message.

Thanks in advance!

Is the bygone era coming back?
Its saying "unable to handle request"

How would i donate timetables to the Bygone Era Archive, the zip file size is too big to attach.

How would i donate timetables to the Bygone Era Archive, the zip file size is too big to attach.

Upload it to a cloud sharing site like Mega or Mediafire and share the link

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Err... Another change! Can't find a link to unread messages and seem to end up at the start of any thread I click on.