(07 Jun 2020, 6:24 am)cbma06 wrote Can’t see GNE operating between Hartlepool and billingham to Middlesbrough area as it’s stagecoach area, there can get away with the x9 in billingham as it’s an old purchased operators route (Ok 211 route).
Would like to see GNE entering east Durham from the county border:
Extend the 35 from low moorsley to high pittington.
Extend a journey on the 61 back to Easington lane and onto Haswell, Wheatley Hill and Thornley , or extend 1 or 2 journeys from X1 to these villages, which would open some old and new links.
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Hadn't realised until I looked on the Bygone Era that the X7 stopped running to Middlesbrough in 2015, where has that 5 years gone.
The few times I did use the service it was packed every single time particularly with elderly passengers if the missed the X9/X35 back then as it was.
I was just looking at a way the service in that area could be more sustainable and what potential links it could open for those in that area.
As for the 35 you could merge it with the 265 between Low Moorsley and Durham rather than as far as Low Pittington which open up further links in those areas direct to the likes of the Royal Hospital/Sunderland University and of course the City Centre.
You could also introduce a further variation of the 71 between Houghton & Seaham running via Hetton-Le-Hole/Dalton Park to partially replace the remaining section of the 265.