(26 Jul 2015, 8:22 pm)BusLoverMum wrote Thornley and Wheatley Hill to Durham are £7 return on the 22. It's a 20 minute journey, including the crawl along Gilesgate. The villages manage to be outside all of the discounted fare zones, including Durham District and are nowhere near the boundary of the East Durham zone. It stings and drivers who don't know the route so well often wince when I ask for a ticket because hardly anyone who doesn't have a concessionary pass bothers with the bus.
(26 Jul 2015, 8:51 pm)Andreos1 wrote I wasn't going to mention it, but seeing as everyone else is.
£2.80 on the 4 Houghton to Heworth.
Add a handful of ten pences onto £3 and you have the fare on the 20 to Sunderland from Houghton.
(26 Jul 2015, 8:54 pm)Tom wrote Or £4.00 like you've said to Durham which is appalling. Not sure how the hell they come up with these fares as there is no logic in a lot of them!
(26 Jul 2015, 8:57 pm)Andreos1 wrote It is more than £4.00 now.
I didn't mention the Durham one, as it has been brought up before.
I thought the two Tyne & Wear ones were interesting - particularly the cheaper of the two covering a greater distance, greater journey time and two buzzfare zones.
(26 Jul 2015, 8:58 pm)Tom wrote Yeah they are definitely. £2.80 is very good value. Isn't it £3.20 or £4.10 from Houghton to the Galleries on the X1?
Not sure if it's been mentioned before but someone was charged £4.10(!!) from Lanchester to Consett the other day. Surely can't be right?
(26 Jul 2015, 9:08 pm)Andreos1 wrote The fare from Houghton - Galleries on the X1 is/was the same as the fare to Newcastle.
I think it is mentioned early on in this thread. Tend not to pay that fare, after having my fingers burned - so no idea what it is these days.
The £2.80 is a bargain fare. Totally agree.
Curious to find out the return fare, coupled with a return to the town on the metro from Heworth, to see how it compares to the day ticket alternatives.
(26 Jul 2015, 8:34 pm)aureolin wrote Thornley not being in the Durham district boundary has always baffled me, given that the likes of Bowburn, Coxhoe and Kelloe are. Not to mention Bishop, Newcastle and Gateshead!
(28 Jul 2015, 12:34 pm)R852 PRG wrote I'm wondering if somebody could clear something up for me; what is the reasoning behind 90 pence Key Card fares being unavailable on the ''Tyne Tees Express'' services?
(28 Jul 2015, 12:39 pm)GX03 SVC wrote They want your money!!!![]()
(28 Jul 2015, 7:42 pm)aureolin wrote Used to be the case for the old Regionwide tickets too. You would have to have an X10 ticket instead, which was essentially Regionwide+X10.
(28 Jul 2015, 7:48 pm)R852 PRG wrote Obviously. That is the whole point of a business.
Oh I see, thanks Adrian. So this ''Regionwide+X10'' ticket, if you paid for that could you travel on the X10, but if you just had a standard ''Regionwide'' ticket, could you not?
(28 Jul 2015, 7:53 pm)R852 PRG wrote I've guessed correctly for once. Next thing you know, I'm on the Chase.
Would this have been when the coaches were on the X10?
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(28 Jul 2015, 7:58 pm)R852 PRG wrote So, the coaches were on the X9 before it even existed?
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(28 Jul 2015, 8:00 pm)tyresmoke wrote What I meant was the regionwide+X10 ticket would have been before the X9 existed.
Coaches haven't operated X10 for at least as long as I can remember, though maybe in the early years when it was a shared Northern/United service? The pink Premieres/Paragons were the early days of the X9
(28 Jul 2015, 8:04 pm)citaro5284 wrote Coaches were used on the X10 when it was jointly operated with United along with the X1 (at the time), when Chester ran it.
The duty was something like X1 from Chester to Newcastle, X10 to Middlesboro and back to Newcastle, then X1 back to Chester.
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(28 Jul 2015, 8:10 pm)R852 PRG wrote I hear most coaches are fantastic to drive, if I was a driver, I certainly wouldn't object to a nice drive like that in a Volvo B10M coach!
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(28 Jul 2015, 8:04 pm)citaro5284 wrote Coaches were used on the X10 when it was jointly operated with United along with the X1 (at the time), when Chester ran it.Don't forget the Metrobuses that Chester used.
The duty was something like X1 from Chester to Newcastle, X10 to Middlesboro and back to Newcastle, then X1 back to Chester.
(28 Jul 2015, 8:27 pm)aureolin wrote Ooh aye. Superliner branded Metrobuses rings a bell!