(22 Sep 2016, 10:55 pm)Jimmi wrote Ever since they changed it to the timetable it has now back in 2012 it has started to decrease in passenger numbers, first you lost the Bishop Auckland - Durham section in that set of changes and although the service was more infrequent, it ran more journeys back then, after that it just started to decrease further still as to begin with it was daily but when the peak time X19 service went the distance, the weekday X24 went with it as I believed there was some interworking although it continued to run in the school holidays, shortly after that GNE changed the X22 so all journeys ran to Durham as they do now, the weekday school holiday and Sunday journeys then went the distance as well, leaving it to Saturday Service only although the Sunday times were the same as the rest of the week which was daft given that the first journey arrived at 09:52 and the shops don't properly open until 11am. These days you could get away with Solo's on the X24.
The X24 is one of the most 'annoying' services that we do. It seems to be completely unpredictable. One week you may pick no-one up, yet the next week you could have a full load. A few weeks ago I was coaxed into starting work early to do an X24 because 'you won't pick many up', yet ended up taking over £100, so who knows what goes on with that service.