Tyne & Wear Transport Miscellany 4 / British Bus Snapshots - Tyneside.

Filmed in the period 1990 - 1994 this is one of several films of the integrated transport system in the Newcastle-Upon-Tyne area.
The locations seen are:
Four Lane Ends station
Regent Centre station
Newcastle City Centre.
The Shields Ferry (waterbus).
The first two locations primarily focus on the bus / rail interchange aspect of an 'integrated transport system'.
The intended use of this footage was a video about urban transport systems, and therefore some filming was done 'documentary style' where short scenes were wanted, not long sequences showing buses coming, stopping and going.
The ferry / waterbus was filmed on a very wet day - you can hear the rain! Because of the weather all filming was 'hand held'. It was intended to return and film better sequences on a sunny day but this never happened. The documentary film used about 3 seconds of this footage.

[@britishmodified]

Great stuff, shieldsman ferry is now a house boat, can't remember where though. Yellow and white colour scheme for everything back then was great, not like that anymore though

[@kevanhubbard9673]

Moor Dale looks very similar to the Northern livery and I don't recall ever seeing them.i had seen Northumbria which was, along with Scarborough and District and later Tees,a spin off from United.

[@AlexMetroman]

If you wanted to focus on bus interchange, Gateshead would have been a great spot.
Plus my friend Leslie's husband Bob is a shields ferry driver! (Leslie drives the metros)

[@CitytransportInfoplus]

@CoachAlex1996
It needed to be suburban, and anyway these stations are beter for showing the buses right outside the metro station, rather than along passageways / walkways.
Simon

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Friend: How many days are in a year?
Me: 0:40

[@AlexMetroman]

@citytransportinfo true, very true.

[@terryreay5644]

This is the system that worked! The intergrated system. Privatization of the re-regulation system has not worked. ""Why fix things when they are not broke!!"

[@CitytransportInfoplus]

There were many good aspects to the fully integrated system but perhaps the only thing that was 'not so good' was that some passengers found the need to change between bus and metro train was an issue / made life inconvenient.
I say this because older people who are not in a hurry (and often somewhat infirm) place greater value on 'one seat' journeys than overall journey times.
That said, the full free-for-all that came with deregulation was also not the best way forward.