(27 Jun 2016, 12:18 pm)GMitchelhill No part of the A19 south of the tunnel to Thirsk is limited to 50mphI was referring to the StreetLite's, not the A19. I badly worded that last post.
(27 Jun 2016, 12:18 pm)GMitchelhill No part of the A19 south of the tunnel to Thirsk is limited to 50mphI was referring to the StreetLite's, not the A19. I badly worded that last post.
I think that the days of 'heavy duty' single and double deck buses are becoming numbered. When the call beckons for 6043-6048 to be replace, I think it will be highly likely to see StreetDecks replacing them. Although not ideal vehicles, they seem to do the job OK and only time will tell.
The same goes for Streetlites continuing the discussion and although they have a small engine, it doesn't necessarily mean that they'll prove unreliable over long distances. Looking at Arriva's Enviro 400s out of Ashington Depot, with the exception of 7501-7505 which had hard lives before going to Ashington, the majority of them have proven themselves particularly the Euro 5 examples (7528 - 7534 in particular).
X6. Hartlepool - castle eden - horden - peterlee - Easington village - Easington lane - murton - dalton park - heworth - wardley.
This service will operate a hourly frequency allowing service x35 to be reverted to an hourly frequency.
This service will additionally replace service 202 to dalton park before providing a direct fast link to heworth for connecting to other services.
This service will allow service 57 to go every 30 minutes with wardley still having 3 buses a hour to heworth.
X7. Middlesbrough - Billingham - peterlee - Easington village - hetton le hole - rainton bridge ( peak times ) - hougton le spring - Doxford international - tunstall bank - ryhope - Grangetown - sunderland interchange.
This service will operate using double deck vehicles and replaces service 923 to Rainton bridge.
This service will replace service x9 also.
This service will also allow service 39 to be revised to every 20 minutes.
X8. Middlesbrough - stockton - norton - wingate - peterlee - Easington village - dalton park - spectrum - seaham - east shore village - ryhope - hollycarside - sunderland.
This service will replace service x7,238,202.
The service will operate every hour between Sunderland and Peterlee but every 2 hours peterlee to middlesbrough.
This service will operate via sunderland estates to give people a service to middlesbrough.
The service will run the same way as arrivas 22 service peterlee to dalton park.
This service will operate using single deck vehicles with peterlee running the long x8 and deptford running the short x8.
X9. Service withdrawn and replaced with x10.
X10 Newcastle - Gateshead - heworth - peterlee - norton - stockton - middlesbrough.
This service will operate every hour but every 30 minutes at peak times and replaces the x9.
The service will additionally serve peterlee bus station although peak journeys wont but will stop on the slip road.
The x6 will provide more buses to Peterlee and a new link to hartlepool.
Service x7 will serve peterlee and will allow connections to Billingham.
Service 265 will additionally serve the estate before seaham mill inn upon the 238 route.
60. This service will operate every 20 minutes.
61 this service will operate every 20 minutes.
Together these services will form a every 10 minute bus service seaham westlea to park lane.
New 62 Sunderland - Grangetown - Ryhope - seaham mill inn - seaton - hall lane - hougton le spring - newbottle - shiney Row - barnwell.
This service will replace the 238 and provide extra buses along the 60 and 61 coridoor.
X35. This service will only operate at peak times along with several early Saturday morning journeys.
The sunday journeys are transferd to service x1 extending to Peterlee.
This will allow a every 30 minute bus to low moorsley on a Sunday.
(27 Jun 2016, 7:52 pm)biglugs@yahoo.com X6. Hartlepool - castle eden - horden - peterlee - Easington village - Easington lane - murton - dalton park - heworth - wardley.Goes to Heworth before Wardley??
This service will operate a hourly frequency allowing service x35 to be reverted to an hourly frequency.
This service will additionally replace service 202 to dalton park before providing a direct fast link to heworth for connecting to other services.
This service will allow service 57 to go every 30 minutes with wardley still having 3 buses a hour to heworth.
(27 Jun 2016, 7:52 pm)biglugs@yahoo.com X6. Hartlepool - castle eden - horden - peterlee - Easington village - Easington lane - murton - dalton park - heworth - wardley.Goes to Heworth before Wardley??
This service will operate a hourly frequency allowing service x35 to be reverted to an hourly frequency.
This service will additionally replace service 202 to dalton park before providing a direct fast link to heworth for connecting to other services.
This service will allow service 57 to go every 30 minutes with wardley still having 3 buses a hour to heworth.
(27 Jun 2016, 8:08 pm)beefcake What exactly is in Wardley that would make me want to sit on a bus through to there? As there's nothing much to offer at this end of the route
(27 Jun 2016, 8:08 pm)beefcake What exactly is in Wardley that would make me want to sit on a bus through to there? As there's nothing much to offer at this end of the route
(27 Jun 2016, 8:08 pm)beefcake What exactly is in Wardley that would make me want to sit on a bus through to there? As there's nothing much to offer at this end of the route
(27 Jun 2016, 8:11 pm)biglugs@yahoo.com Your not a wardley resident that may need the route
(27 Jun 2016, 8:08 pm)beefcake What exactly is in Wardley that would make me want to sit on a bus through to there? As there's nothing much to offer at this end of the route
(27 Jun 2016, 8:11 pm)biglugs@yahoo.com Your not a wardley resident that may need the route
Services suggestion sorry if people have already suggested theses
X10 service revised to run non stop between Newcastle and Middlesbrough this services will run hourly
X36 and X7 withdrawn replaced by a revised X9 which will run Newcastle-Gateshead-Heworth-Bolden-Downhil-Southwick-Sunderland-Seaham-Peterlee-Station Town-Billingham-Norton-Stockton-Middlesbrough this service will run every 30 minutes
X21 Express Newcastle-Bishop Auckland only stopping at Durham this service will still run Every 30 minutes
New service 21A Newcastle-Bishop Auckland replacing the link for the current X21 this service will run Every 15 minutes replacing the 21 to Durham
X31 to run on Sundays giving a quick link to Stanley every 30 minutes
47 extended hourly to Consett from Black Hall Mill
Also Sundays journeys on the X10 would run via Stockton-Peterlee-Bolden-Heworth and Gateshead
(29 Jun 2016, 10:36 pm)Ds1197 Services suggestion sorry if people have already suggested theses
X10 service revised to run non stop between Newcastle and Middlesbrough this services will run hourly
X36 and X7 withdrawn replaced by a revised X9 which will run Newcastle-Gateshead-Heworth-Bolden-Downhil-Southwick-Sunderland-Seaham-Peterlee-Station Town-Billingham-Norton-Stockton-Middlesbrough this service will run every 30 minutes
X21 Express Newcastle-Bishop Auckland only stopping at Durham this service will still run Every 30 minutes
New service 21A Newcastle-Bishop Auckland replacing the link for the current X21 this service will run Every 15 minutes replacing the 21 to Durham
X31 to run on Sundays giving a quick link to Stanley every 30 minutes
47 extended hourly to Consett from Black Hall Mill
Also Sundays journeys on the X10 would run via Stockton-Peterlee-Bolden-Heworth and Gateshead
(29 Jun 2016, 10:36 pm)Ds1197 Services suggestion sorry if people have already suggested theses
X10 service revised to run non stop between Newcastle and Middlesbrough this services will run hourly
X36 and X7 withdrawn replaced by a revised X9 which will run Newcastle-Gateshead-Heworth-Bolden-Downhil-Southwick-Sunderland-Seaham-Peterlee-Station Town-Billingham-Norton-Stockton-Middlesbrough this service will run every 30 minutes
X21 Express Newcastle-Bishop Auckland only stopping at Durham this service will still run Every 30 minutes
New service 21A Newcastle-Bishop Auckland replacing the link for the current X21 this service will run Every 15 minutes replacing the 21 to Durham
X31 to run on Sundays giving a quick link to Stanley every 30 minutes
47 extended hourly to Consett from Black Hall Mill
Also Sundays journeys on the X10 would run via Stockton-Peterlee-Bolden-Heworth and Gateshead
(29 Jun 2016, 11:06 pm)MrFozz That would take forever...
Both X7 and X9 currently take about 1h20-1h30, your X9 diverting through Sunderland would take well over 2 hours, going on the timing of current and previous services that go between Newcastle and Sunderland.
If I was to suggest anything myself, it would be
X8 Sunderland-Grangetown-Ryhope-New Seaham-Dalton Park-A19-Peterlee-Billingham-Middlesbrough...Half Hourly combined with the X7
Will need to have a good think sometime, I aint had any service suggestions lately ?
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(29 Jun 2016, 11:06 pm)MrFozz That would take forever...
Both X7 and X9 currently take about 1h20-1h30, your X9 diverting through Sunderland would take well over 2 hours, going on the timing of current and previous services that go between Newcastle and Sunderland.
If I was to suggest anything myself, it would be
X8 Sunderland-Grangetown-Ryhope-New Seaham-Dalton Park-A19-Peterlee-Billingham-Middlesbrough...Half Hourly combined with the X7
Will need to have a good think sometime, I aint had any service suggestions lately ?
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35H Current X35 route
X6 Runs Via Current X35 route between Hartlepool & Peterlee,Then running same route as X21 Into Sunderland
Both Run Hourly PVR 7,On Sundays 35H will replace the current 35A per hour the continues to Peterlee,but will also continue to Hartlepool
X7 Extended Via X36 route into Newcastle,But Runs Non-Stop from Heworth Into Newcastle,Rebranded The Tyne,Wear & Tees Express.
remaining Hourly PVR 5
X8 New Service,running via X7 route Between Sunderland & Peterlee,before running via Current 208 route into Durham,Interworks with 265 At Durham
Both X8 & 265 Hourly PVR 6
X9/X10 Remain the Same
208 Only runs the Short Peterlee - Easington Village trip per hour,PVR 1
- More Simple numbers for Buses In/Out Of Peterlee & Brings the Express services for that area into line (Express buses to Sunderland X7/X8,To Newcastle X9/X10 (Eves + Sun) & To Middlesborough (X7/9)
- Even Quicker buses into Newcastle from Sunderland with X7 missing out Gateshead (Might not save that much time,but at least 5-10 Mins?)
- Bigger buses for X8 & 265 (Maybe Citaros if/when they become available?)
- 35H Brings it into line with the current 35/36 Services between Houghton Le Spring & Sunderland,as well as introduce a Sunday service into Hartlepool from Sunderland
Washington services changes well really number and brand changes
4 still connection4
82/82A renumbered 4A/4B and would join the connections4 brand don't know about 82B maybe 4C
The evening 82/83 journeys renumbered 2E/3E but would still use connections4 buses
85/86 branded indigo Washington
X1 frequency increased between Washington and Newcastle and decreased towards Easington Lane
Slightly revised time on the 50 to give more overlay time at South Shields