(23 Dec 2019, 12:07 am)Jamie M Why X31 to consett when you already have that section served by the X70 and X71?

(22 Dec 2019, 11:17 pm)DH9 The Stanley changes look interesting.  Clearly, M6 and M8 are truncated to Stanley and Metrocentre only.  It's a shame as the M8 was a cleaner way of travelling between Annfield Plain and the Metrocentre than the 6.  I'm guessing the 32 will finish an hour earlier in the afternoon than the M8 does with its Annfield Plain extension due to lower afternoon passenger numbers.

New 32 appears to be the M8 extension to Annfield Plain made stand alone.  Unless theres something I'm missing, it would be probably more economical to send every second 16 into Fines Park (buses can do the route).  Given the 16 in both directions stands a Stanley for 5 minutes, there' scope to do this.

The M6 extension to Lanchester reverts to being the 30.  As this is hourly, this leaves Quaking Houses at one bus per hour for first time in years.  Again, I may be missing something.

If M7 continues to be an East Stanley only service, the numbering becomes anomalous.

I hope the unreliability of the 6 is sorted out.

One change that has not happened and I'd have liked to have seen is it being the X31 and not the X30 continue hourly to Consett.  The X31 makes more sense from a commuting point of view on accessing Gateshead and the Team Valley.from Annfield Plain.  The two X32 journeys in each direction should definitely be extended, which would have restored a direct link between Consett and the southern end of the Team Valley lost with the 2007 withdrawal of the 934.

I'm hoping also the short 6 on a morning from Flint Hill to Stanley has its guaranteed link with the 7.10 am X32 restored.  That was personally very useful to me.

(23 Dec 2019, 5:04 am)Stanleyone 30 will continue as is now, 1 hourly to Lanchester and 1 hourly to Quaking Houses, 31 will be the current M7 and 32 will be the current M8 all interworking. X31 won’t replace the X30 simply because of the driver change overs at Consett, X30 and X70/X71 arrive within minutes of each other at Sunniside I’d anyone wants Gateshead from the places you mentioned, in my opinion not that many make the connection (if any) most I would think will catch the 16 and wait the 7/8 mins at Stanley.

(24 Dec 2019, 12:54 pm)ASX_Terranova Any Idea about 4,8 and 50.
As a Washington lad any major Changes would be good to know about

(24 Dec 2019, 12:54 pm)ASX_Terranova Any Idea about 4,8 and 50.
As a Washington lad any major Changes would be good to know about

(24 Dec 2019, 3:19 pm)S813 FVK I'm sure Go North East will publish them all in good time once New Year is out the way.

(26 Dec 2019, 1:07 pm)Michael Hopefully in the next few days.

(27 Dec 2019, 2:29 pm)S813 FVK As an FYI to the above: the basic format timetables are now on the GNE website.

(27 Dec 2019, 2:49 pm)Michael Looks like the 21, will still run every 7 minutes between Newcastle and Chester, but only half a hour between Chester and Durham, working with the X21 -


Both from Chester:

21: 50 and 20
X21 - 43 58 13 28


So it provides a service of every 7/8 mins, between Chester and Durham... 13, 20, 28, 43, 50 and 58

(27 Dec 2019, 2:59 pm)cbma06 Wonder if any angels be going into xlines?


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(27 Dec 2019, 2:55 pm)JP6004 21 timetable seems strange....same frequency as now but only 2 services continuing to Durham, rest terminating at chester.
Still think they should of had 21 every 15mins to Durham and X21 every 15mins and removed the chester shorts

(27 Dec 2019, 3:11 pm)Jimmi Problem with that idea is Chester - Newcastle is the busier end of the route so would be daft to cut the frequency of that section of the route.

More people tend to opt for X21 if travelling further than Chester-le-Street so makes sense to increase that in my eyes, only downside is those in Birtley and some stops in Low Fell now being cut to half hourly to/from Durham, would imagine they'll have the X21 observing all stops between Durham and Chester to make up for the loss of the 21.

(27 Dec 2019, 3:11 pm)Jimmi Problem with that idea is Chester - Newcastle is the busier end of the route so would be daft to cut the frequency of that section of the route.

More people tend to opt for X21 if travelling further than Chester-le-Street so makes sense to increase that in my eyes, only downside is those in Birtley and some stops in Low Fell now being cut to half hourly to/from Durham, would imagine they'll have the X21 observing all stops between Durham and Chester to make up for the loss of the 21.

(27 Dec 2019, 3:22 pm)Stanleyone I believe that is the case with X21 serving all stops south of CLS, probably now opening the discussion about true express services.

(27 Dec 2019, 3:29 pm)streetdeckfan Well, I'm glad someone else brought that up so Dan can't complain that it was me this time!

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