(01 Aug 2017, 5:27 pm)L469 YVK wrote What I meant was that with Arriva already operating a number 1 service in Blyth, GNE drivers would need to ask passengers boarding in Blyth where they intend to travel to if they're buying a ticket or got any form of a pass / key card etc.
They wouldn't need to announce the stops or let passengers know where to get off, they would just have to ask any passengers boarding in Blyth where they're going to make sure that any vunlerable passengers (elderly, visually impaired etc) don't end up in Wallsend / Byker if they were intending to head into Ashington / Bedlington.
I can't imagine either operator would care that much. We had 3 service X1s in Newcastle for a while and I don't think anyone indending for Sedgfield ended up in Blyth.
Chester is the worst for duplicate service numbers. There are 3 different service 1s - of which one is Stagecoach, one is Arriva and one is jointly operated by both. In addition there is a X1, 1A and a DB1, with destinations ranging from Liverpool to Wrexham.