(30 May 2015, 8:36 pm)tyresmoke wrote I guess there's not much you could do with it other than implement another bus into the schedule. The possibility for getting held up enroute is enormous on a route like the X18 with the amount of places it had to pass through between Berwick & Newcastle. Providing a robust schedule covering a route that length is nigh on impossible I'd expect (I have limited experience of these routes mind!) - from my experience down in my area, the X93 is a similar sort of operation, albeit on a much shorter route, where the possibilities for being held up are endless with the territory they serve. A 2 or 3 minute delay in 4 or 5 places enroute would soon add up to 15+
Could they not split the X18 totally, and have a different route running that way?
For example:
X17 - Newcastle-Morpeth-Widdrington-Alnwick
X18 - Alnwick-Bamburgh-Berwick