In the years after World War I, the use of buses as a means of public transport rocketed.
As rail travel entered a period of gradual decline, and before the wholesale arrival of the motor car on UK roads, people increasingly chose to travel by bus. By 1932 there were 100 local authorities running municipal bus services, together with a host of private companies.
In Newcastle, new bus stations were built to cater for the growing numbers of passengers using this convenient form of public transport. A station at Worswick Street, opening on the same day as the Tyne Bridge in 1928, served passengers travelling to the south of the region. Around the same time, a station at Marlborough Crescent became operational and was used by people living in the west of the region. Both stations are now gone. A third station at the Haymarket, opening in 1930 and serving passengers heading to and from the north of the city and Northumberland, is still operational today although in a much-remodelled form.
