(20 Apr 2020, 8:23 pm)stagecoachbusdepot wrote Is the 35 one of the most downgraded routes in the network?  I remember when it was the Laser with new Mercs....can't remember now but did the downgrade to Solars coincide with the loss of the Shields section, or something else?  Presume the route that remains is (in normal times - not re Covid) not lucrative hence the downgrade if so?

Remember you posting this but just thought the 6/M6/M7/M8 (Old 43/44) has to beat the 35 in terms of downgrades. It's had so many changes in terms of buses, none of them positive, but it's also had a massive downgrade in the timetable aswell from a service that used to be every 15 minutes (43/44) and always quite a flagship route (one of the early brands) to now all over the place and some of the communities have just lost some of the connections altogether. Tanobie -> Newcastle and Durham for example.