(13 Jun 2014, 9:24 pm)marxistafozzski I would have suggested Houghton or Hetton as they pretty much slap bang in the middle between Newcastle and Hartlepool

(13 Jun 2014, 9:24 pm)marxistafozzski I would have suggested Houghton or Hetton as they pretty much slap bang in the middle between Newcastle and Hartlepool

(13 Jun 2014, 9:33 pm)aureolin May as well just keep the X1 and X35 if that's the case. I see where you're coming from, but perhaps timings could be worked on to allow connections. Unfortunately a lot of services appear to be timed on their own individual merit and connections are an after thought.

(13 Jun 2014, 10:28 pm)GMitchelhill Heres a good idea.

How about GNE do an X8?

Newcastle - Gateshead - Heworth - Peterlee Bus Station - Wingate - Hart - Hartlepool University Hospital - Hartlepool

Could co-ordinate it to run every 30 mins with the X7 between Peterlee and Station Town.

(13 Jun 2014, 9:35 pm)Marcus I never thought of that. Maybe most X1s run to time as they do now - but they could possibly have a 'once an hour' 'guaranteed' connection. Like they do on railways - where one can't leave until the other pulls in.

(13 Jun 2014, 10:32 pm)marxistafozzski If the access roads were better, I would like to see one of the express services call into Dalton Park, but the traffic can be hectic coming off the A19 at times

(13 Jun 2014, 11:24 pm)GMitchelhill Going Northbound the access to Dalton Park isn't too bad. But southbound the bus would have to travel about a mile going back on itself to get the A19. Unless they ran the X9 through Easington Village.

(14 Jun 2014, 5:14 am)marxistafozzski Yeah, Southbound access is shocking, and on a bad day, could add years to a journey, specially on a busy day.

Recently I have suggested extending the X36 to Hartlepool with Dalton Park as a stopping point or extending 1 or 2 X1's an hour to DP, but until the access is sorted out it will always be awkward to reach Southbound of the 19

(14 Jun 2014, 1:32 pm)Marcus I had 4931 on the X25 this morning to Wrekenton - and a mother, father and 20-odd year old son got on close to my stop. It was already chokka, and as I put my bag on the seat next to me to get ready to alight, the son found he didn't see a seat. His parents had the back row - (three seats taken up with their stuff), and as he said he was going to sit down at the front, his father said 'no you won't'. He then picked up my bag (without my permission) and threw it at me and told his son to sit down! Goodness me, that's the worst type of person to be on a bus with!

I couldn't help but notice while I had 6086 and 6090 on the 56 - that the announcements seemed to be inconsistent. On 6086, they were really quiet and sounded like they were in Welsh!

On 6090 - it sounded it about 3 different people were doing them!

(12 Jun 2014, 10:53 pm)Andreos Constantopolous Wrote a big post, lost signal and it vanished.

(14 Jun 2014, 2:51 pm)citaro5284 That seems to happen to you quite often....

(14 Jun 2014, 2:55 pm)Andreos Constantopolous It does unfortunately.
I blamed the hotel WiFi this time.

(14 Jun 2014, 3:04 pm)Dan Good job it wasn't the fault of the Wi-Fi on the Angel, eh?!

For anyone interested - I hung around the Metrocentre and Eldon Square for a bit today, and every TEN had working Wi-Fi. Didn't test any of the others.

(14 Jun 2014, 3:04 pm)Dan Good job it wasn't the fault of the Wi-Fi on the Angel, eh?!

For anyone interested - I hung around the Metrocentre and Eldon Square for a bit today, and every TEN had working Wi-Fi. Didn't test any of the others.

(14 Jun 2014, 3:04 pm)Dan Good job it wasn't the fault of the Wi-Fi on the Angel, eh?!

For anyone interested - I hung around the Metrocentre and Eldon Square for a bit today, and every TEN had working Wi-Fi. Didn't test any of the others.

(12 Jun 2014, 10:53 pm)Andreos Constantopolous Wrote a big post, lost signal and it vanished.

@busman101 - granted, point to point the 638 wont have carried many (AdamY apart) - but if it doesn't work commercially, why is the combined pvr of the replacement services, exceed the 638?

@Marcus - aye, they interworked. Used a hotch potch of vehicles initially, inc Plaxton Verde's off the 638, before the Solars which are on the x84/85 were purchased/branded.

@Fozz - Yup. Mates often got the first 231 after a night out. Was on a Superliner coach, that the Avenue Vivienne lot smashed up with a brick one night.

(14 Jun 2014, 11:31 am)Drifter60 How about this, every 30 Mins each,
X1 Seaham, Houghton-Seaton-Station Road-Seaham
X1 Easington Lane, Houghton-Hetton-Easington Lane
X1 Dalton Park, Houghton-Hetton-Murton-Dalton Park

(14 Jun 2014, 3:37 pm)marxistafozzski Do what I do when needing to write a big post, write it in a notepad up


This maybe needs to be moved to Service Suggestions along with other recent additions to this thread...I will post my ideas in there

(14 Jun 2014, 3:51 pm)Andreos Constantopolous To be honest, it doesn't happen that much on this phone, but often did on my old one.
Started copying text, on the off chance something goes wrong - but after several pints and a phone reboot, there isn't much chance of the copy/paste function working