RE: Arriva North East: Upcoming Service Changes
Although a few extra stops have been bunged into the X7 / X8, it seems a good move to try and assist reliability and it looks like that on average, a 10 minute layover is being introduced in the following pattern in Blyth as well as a PVR increase of 1x vehicle:
Cycle 1:
X7 Blyth Dep: 00:45 then 01:15, 01:45, 02:15, 02:45 = 5x vehicles in total
X7 Newcastle Arr: 01:45
X8 Newcastle Dep: 01:52
X8 Blyth Arr: 03:05 then....
X7 Blyth Dep: 03:15
Cycle 2:
X8 Blyth Dep: 00:47 then 01:17, 01:47, 02:17, 02:47 = 5x vehicles in total
X8 Newcastle Arr: 02:00
X7 Newcastle Dep: 02:07
X7 Blyth Arr: 03:07 then....
X8 Blyth Dep: 03:17