Tyne & Wear PTE 195, Newcastle, 1974
At the junction of Westgate Road and Neville Street, Tyne & Wear PTE 195 turns towards Central Station, passing St John the Baptist Church to the right of picture.
Today the scene is still recognisable and the junction slightly remodelled. The office block still stands, but has been clad. The lower blank-walled section of the office block, has since been reconstructed to incorporate an up market pub and restaurant. The pub is named the Waiting Rooms, presumably a connotation to the nearby railway station.
The stone pillar on the corner has been relocated further forward to allow for the building of the pub.
Returning to the bus: The Weymann bodied Leyland Atlantean was a former Newcastle Corporation Transport vehicle (numbered 95) that had been new to NCT in May 1965. 95 passed to Tyneside PTE on the creation of the transport executive in January 1970, along with Newcastle Corporation's bus operations. Under the PTE, the bus was renumbered 195.
The Local Government Act 1972, created the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear in 1974. On the 1st April 1974, Tyneside PTE became the Tyne & Wear PTE, also taking over the bus operations of Sunderland Corporation.
Photo - 21st December 1974.
Tyne & Wear PTE 195, Newcastle, 1974
At the junction of Westgate Road and Neville Street, Tyne & Wear PTE 195 turns towards Central Station, passing St John the Baptist Church to the right of picture.
Today the scene is still recognisable and the junction slightly remodelled. The office block still stands, but has been clad. The lower blank-walled section of the office block, has since been reconstructed to incorporate an up market pub and restaurant. The pub is named the Waiting Rooms, presumably a connotation to the nearby railway station.
The stone pillar on the corner has been relocated further forward to allow for the building of the pub.
Returning to the bus: The Weymann bodied Leyland Atlantean was a former Newcastle Corporation Transport vehicle (numbered 95) that had been new to NCT in May 1965. 95 passed to Tyneside PTE on the creation of the transport executive in January 1970, along with Newcastle Corporation's bus operations. Under the PTE, the bus was renumbered 195.
The Local Government Act 1972, created the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear in 1974. On the 1st April 1974, Tyneside PTE became the Tyne & Wear PTE, also taking over the bus operations of Sunderland Corporation.
Photo - 21st December 1974.