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Santa seen over depot Darrell departs suburbs
• •Issue Issue No. • A•community newspaper Newcastle’s suburbs ••December 2018 • • No56 104 Newcastle’s favouritefor community newspaper December 2022
anta Claus has been seen fine uning his Christmas Eve delivery oute with brazen daylight yovers of some local suburbs. n an exclusive interview with The ocal the big red man wanted to emind everyone, kids especially, o be on their best behaviour in the ead up to the big day. There are some very good boys nd girls who live in the Newcastle rea, and I hope they remember to
If you have caught buses in and around Newcastle over the last four decades there’s a good chance Darrell Lock was your driver at some point. And if your driver wasn’t Darrell, he probably trained them. After 41 years as both a bus driver and a driver trainer, Darrell, of Birmingham Gardens, retired last month. When asked what he would miss about the job Darrell told The Local “Well I can tell you what it won’t be. And that’s getting up at 4.30 every morning.” “I’ve made many great friends at the depot over the And I’ll miss them. But always keep their rooms tidy years. right through Adamstown andwe’ve a science sethad for a strong social network, soin I’m sure we’ll stay in touch.” December,” he told The Local. Abbey Hamilton South. He added “So many of them have put in a “I do have some information McMahon Lambton, was on the great effort both atDarrell’s school mum, and Pat that Harry inofNorth Lambton has very first bus he drove in the early 1980s. She thought home this year. It would be a been forgetting to do his jobs, but she would again show her support and made sure she shame if right at thewas end stillonplenty of time for him on of the the last busthere’s he drove Thursday 17 November. year we had to reconsider who’s to turn that around and get back on The community thanks you for your dedication and on the ‘nice’ list” service Darrell. the good list,” Santa said. Santa said his elves have been “I’m confident that I’ll be stopping withlocal his first working overtime Left: in Retiring their bus at driver everyDarrell homeLock, in the area and last passenger, his mum Pat McMahon workshop and had made some on Christmas Eve. If everyone’s building blocks for Ben in asleep that is.”
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