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Tyneside Passenger Transport Executive

{{Use British English|date=May 2020}}

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{{Infobox government agency

| name = Tyneside PTE

| native_name = Tyneside Passenger Transport Executive

| logo = Tyneside Passenger Transport Executive.svg

| logo_size = 220px

| image = TWPTE bus 341 Bristol RESL6L ECW ECU 201E Metrocentre rally 2009 pic 1.JPG

| image_size =

| image_caption = Preserved bus wearing Tyneside PTE livery

| formed = {{start date|1970|01|01|df=y}}

| preceding1 = Newcastle Transport

| preceding2 = South Shields Transport

| preceding3 = Sunderland Transport

| dissolved = {{end date|1974|03|31|df=y}}

| superseding = Tyne and Wear PTE

| jurisdiction = {{ubl|Parts of:|Northumberland|County Durham}}

| parent_agency = Tyneside Passenger Transport Authority

| map =

| map_caption =

| agency_type = Passenger Transport Executive

}}

The Tyneside Passenger Transport Executive was the operations arm of the Tyneside Passenger Transport Authority, created by the Transport Act 1968.{{Cite legislation UK|type=act|year=1968|chapter=73|act=Transport Act 1968|accessdate=2020-05-01|date=1968-10-28}} and came into operation on 1 January 1970.

Operations

Tyneside PTE took over the municipal bus operations of Newcastle Corporation and South Shields Corporation from 1 January 1970{{Cite magazine|title=Tyneside PTE transfer|date=1969-11-14|magazine=Commercial Motor|url=http://archive.commercialmotor.com/article/14th-november-1969/33/tyneside-pte-transfer|page=33|access-date=2020-05-01|publisher=Temple Press|publication-place=London|issn=0010-3063}} and added those of Sunderland Corporation from 1 March 1973. It adopted a livery very similar to that used by Newcastle Transport.

In 1972, it took control of Market Place Ferry (now known as the Shields Ferry) crossing the River Tyne between North Shields and South Shields.

Area covered

File:Tyneside PTE 1970.svg

The initial operating area of the PTE covered a number of local authority areas in south east Northumberland and north east County Durham.{{Cite legislation UK|type=si|year=1969|number=96|si=The Tyneside Passenger Transport Area (Designation) Order 1969|accessdate=2020-05-01|date=1969-01-27}}

From Northumberland:

From County Durham:

=Later expansion=

File:Tyneside PTE 1973.svg

On 1 March 1973, the PTE area expanded to include two new local authority areas.{{Cite legislation UK|type=si|year=1973|number=153|si=The Tyneside Passenger Transport (Designation of Additional Area) Order 1973|accessdate=2020-05-01|date=1973-02-01}}

From County Durham:

Replacement

The Local Government Act 1972 created the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear on 1 April 1974.{{Cite legislation UK|type=act|year=1972|chapter=70|act=Local Government Act 1972|accessdate=2020-05-01|date=1972-10-26}} As a result, the Tyneside Passenger Transport Authority was abolished, with the new Tyne and Wear County Council taking over responsibility for that role.{{Cite legislation UK|type=si|year=1973|number=1732|si=The Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Area (Adaptation of Enactments and Instruments) Order 1973|accessdate=2020-05-01|date=1973-10-17}} The PTE's operating area was altered to coincide with that of the new county, changing to become the Tyne and Wear PTE.

=Areas removed=

Some places in the Tyneside PTE area were not included in the new county{{Cite legislation UK|type=si|year=1972|number=2039|si=The English Non-metropolitan Districts (Definition) Order 1972|accessdate=2020-05-01|date=1972-12-21}} and thus were no longer part of a PTE area:

  • from Castle Ward Rural District, the civil parishes of
  • Heddon-on-the-Wall
  • Ponteland

::(which became part of Castle Morpeth district)

  • from Hexham Rural District
  • Wylam civil parish

::(which became part of Tynedale district)

  • Seaton Valley Urban District was split, with three wards remaining in the new Tyne and Wear PTE area (as part of North Tyneside district). The remaining wards were not included in Tyne and Wear and became part of Blyth Valley district.

class="wikitable sortable"
Wards removed from PTE areaWards remaining in PTE area
CramlingtonBackworth
East CramlingtonEarsdon
HartfordShiremoor
Holywell
New Hartley
Newtown
Seaton Delaval
Seghill

  • the Municipal Borough of Whitley Bay was also split. Most of the borough formed part of North Tyneside district in Tyne and Wear. The northern section of the borough, the area around Seaton Sluice, was not included in Tyne and Wear and became part of Blyth Valley district.

=Areas added=

New areas were incorporated into Tyne and Wear and thus became part of the new Tyne and Wear PTE from 1 April 1974:

From County Durham:

References

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Category:Public transport executives in the United Kingdom