Route History

[Gillmoss 0324]

RE: Route History

(14/06/2019 15:18)MTL0201 Wrote:  West Yorkshire PTE did do the same renumbering scheme as Manchester
Leeds 1 to 99
Wakefield 1xx
Dewsbury 2xx
Huddersfield 3xx
Halifax 5xx
Bradford 6xx
Some Wakefield area routes are also 4xx
That hasn't changed

Tyne & Wear PTE was more complex, although local routes were
Newcastle & Gateshead were 1 to 96, night buses 97-100
Sunderland was 1xx
South Shields was 5xx
I say more complex, as you then add Northern General & United Auto routes to/from the PTE area from Northumberland & County Durham they ranged up to 7XX

Interesting would explain why some Go North East's Durham/Middlesbrough services like the 21, 22, X10's etc. were still up to 7XX when I first used them about 14-15 years ago.

I suppose if MPTE had have looked at doing they could've had separate number scheme's for various area's of the four Merseyside council area's. Something like Southport, Formby and Maghull/Literland/Bootle in Sefton, Halewood, Huyton and Kirkby in Knowsley and Birkenhead, Wallasey and other parts of the Wirral. Not intended this way but perhaps Fareway and Liverbus's services could have been a indication of doing this as neither operator ran the same routes and numbers as the competing Merseybus services around that time.