(28 Oct 2018, 10:41 pm)Andreos1 wrote Back to the depot during peaks?!

(29 Oct 2018, 7:42 am)RM2186 wrote By 17.30 the number of buses reduces as the peaks tend to tail off before that time these days. There are still plenty of 4's and X1's to cope with demand from Heworth and Newcastle until 18.30 when peak demand has passed.

The 16:03 X1 service arrives at Easington Lane at 17:11 and runs light to the depot from there, arriving 17:33.

The peak flow of demand is Newcastle to Easington Lane on an evening, so the service provision is increased in this direction from every 12 minutes to every 10 (or more, with the X1As) and decreased to every 15 in the opposite direction.

It'd take over an hour for that bus to travel back to Newcastle, plus any layover, so if that bus didn't return to the depot when it does now, it'd be doing a service from Newcastle at around 18:30 by which time the evening peak has been and gone, and the number of people travelling is much fewer (to the point the service provision is reduced to every 15 minutes in this direction too).