Tyneside Passenger Transport Executive

The initial operating area of the PTE covered a number of local authority areas in south east Northumberland and north east County Durham.

It adopted a livery very similar to that used by Newcastle Transport.

The Local Government Act 1972 created the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear on 1 April 1974.

[5] As a result, the Tyneside Passenger Transport Authority was abolished, with the new Tyne and Wear County Council taking over responsibility for that role.

Some places in the Tyneside PTE area were not included in the new county[7] and thus were no longer part of a PTE area: 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:

The original Tyneside PTE area in 1970, with the modern Tyne and Wear boundary overlaid on top.
The expanded Tyneside PTE area from 1973, with the modern Tyne and Wear boundary overlaid on top.