(01 Aug 2015, 2:36 pm)DaveyBowyer wrote If you read my post carefully, you'd actually find that both would leave and arrive in Ashington with 5/15 gaps but otherwise, they would both run every 10 minutes commonly combined between Bedlington Red Lion and Newcastle. Think of if the way that the Tynedale Express works with buses leaving Hexham at uneven intervals but commonly combining between the West End of Newcastle and Eldon Square.
Ah I was under the impression that you were still having the gap at Bedlington
However, the West end of Bedlington still needs a bus service, and from what I've seen, the X21 is well used along that section of route. I've boarded there before, each time with at least one other person when Newcastle bound. The routes have been like that for nearly 3 years now, changing that would be massively confusing in my opinion, especially when the Sapphire X21/22 has been very well promoted with leaflets through doors etc.