(03 Jul 2015, 9:47 pm)northern156 wrote Sorry Jimmi but I think calling a service which is 12 minutes late 'an utter joke' is unnecessary...

Regarding large dwell times at stops/stations. As long as you have human beings going onto a vehicle you'll always have this problem, no matter where you go.

Hell, I've seen plenty of buses in Carlisle (15min frequencies sometimes) running in pairs! Once I seen a trio!!

May have been a bit of an overreaction but I do feel that the service in question could do with some changes to make the service more reliable as there does seem to be problems with the service keeping to time.

In May the service had a revised timetable where they took 3 minutes out of the running time on the Bishop Auckland - Newton Aycliffe section and placed the 3 minutes into the Newton Aycliffe - Darlington section of the route and all I feel that it's done is make the service run even later on the route between Bishop Auckland and Aycliffe as the Aycliffe - Darlo section didn't really need any additional running time but I strongly feel the Bishop Auckland - Newton Aycliffe section of this route needs more running time as during the daytime once the service gets to Shildon it's running behind the timetable and often stays behind time until it gets back to Bishop Auckland again.