Arriva North East: Service Suggestions

Storx

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23 Apr 2021, 10:15 pm #1,040

(23 Apr 2021, 9:31 pm)L469 YVK Phase 1

New vehicles
- 5x Scania N250UD / ADL E400MMC 10.9M ZF - ArrivaX - X18/X20 (X18 part of next phase, includes 1x spare)
Route branding would be
*Alnwick
*Amble
*Widdrington
*Newcastle

- 13x Dennis Trident 2 / ADL E400MMC 10.9M ZF - ArrivaX - X19/X21/X22 (incl 1x spare)
Route branding would be
*Newbiggin
*Ashington
*Newcastle

- 5x ADL E200MMC Cummins B4.5 11.5m Voith - Arriva Premium - 35
Route branding would be
*Newbiggin
*North Seaton
*Ashington
*Morpeth

Phase 1 cascades
- 7541-52 to Blyth for 308 & other routes (until Phase 3)

Service X19 (Interworking with X21)
- New hourly service Mondays to Saturdays including Sunday daytimes.
- Monday to Saturday evening service.
- Would operate from Newbiggin Cresswell Arms via Woodhorn then same route as service X20 to Newcastle.
- Up to half hourly combined frequency with X20 between Woodhorn and Newcastle.

Service X20 (PVR 4x)
- New & improved vehicles introduced including bike racks.

Services X21/X22 (PVR 12x including X19)
- Up to every 15 minutes Mondays to Saturdays.
- Up to every 30 minutes Evenings and Sundays.
- X21 hourly between Ashington and Newbiggin but with extra journeys around school times.
- X21 would no longer serve Moor Estate in Newbiggin, all journeys terminate at Cresswell Arms.
- Small number of Sunday evening X22 journeys withdrawn.
- 10.15pm X21 journey from Newcastle would terminate in Ashington. New later journeys from Newcastle to Newbiggin provided by service X19.

Service 35 (PVR 5x)
- Would no longer serve Woodhorn. Newbiggin Seacrest Road to Morpeth only.
- Up to every 20 minutes Mondays to Saturdays.
- Increased Evening and Sunday frequency between Ashington and Morpeth.

Board codes (* = letter i.e X21A)
X21* - Double deck vehicle
35* - Single deck vehicle, also covers Sunday X19 boards although standalone

I know what your trying to do here but there's a lot more to the timetables that you've missed here, there's been quite a bit of work been put into the current timetables and they're actually quite clever if you look into them more (something other bus companies really should learn).

Currently it's

Every 15 Minutes between Ashington and Newbiggin with the 35/X21
Every 15 Minutes between Ashington and Bedlington Station with the 1/X21
Every 15 Minutes between Bedlington Station and Bedlington with 2/X21
Every 15 Minutes between Bedlington Station and Blyth with the 1/2
Every 30 Minutes between Amble and Newcastle with the X18/X20 (for reference).
Nothing with the 2/57/X22 between Bedlington and Guide Post but somewhere has to fail.

With your timetables you've made the service between Newbiggin and Ashington worse (Every 20 mins instead of 15 mins) and complete buggered up the 1/2 connections and when you change one you end up with a chain reaction with the next going off.