The advent of the Tyne and Wear Metro in the early 1980s began the slow decline of Worswick Street station, as more and more passengers chose to hop aboard the new light rail system.
This particular city bus terminus, including its brick offices and tin-roofed bus shed, was opened in 1929 by Northern General Transport.
The red Northern buses served routes into County Durham, as well as Wearside, and what is today South Tyneside.
The bus station had its own training school on the top floor, and first-floor offices where drivers and conductors paid in their takings at the end of a shift.
There was also a waiting room, which had a coal fire in the winter, to protect passengers from the draughty bus stands and the pigeons which flocked here in their hundreds.
Meanwhile, up the road at St James’ Park, Newcastle United would kick off the new football season with a home game against Watford just a few weeks’ later.
But of more immediate concern, the passengers here were queuing for buses which would never arrive because of a strike by maintenance men!
As for Worswick Street bus station, it would see its final bus depart in 1998.