(18 Nov 2018, 3:55 pm)cbma06 wrote The x9 route is similar to the old route that was used from a bus company which GNE took over, and the X10 is a long established route which is still owned by the same company even though it’s not a joint route with another company anymore.
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Exactly.
And at no point (in my recollection anyway), has Hartlepool or any of the other pre-Stagecoach operators on Teesside tried to sneak in and compete with the faster services.
They've left GNE to it and concentrated on their local core work.
(I've ignored the half hearted attempt that was the X55)