(19 Sep 2020, 8:26 am)L469 YVK wrote Below doesn't take into account evenings & Sundays but will have a think. All journeys double deck operated.
PVR 306/307/308 = 10x
PVR X38 = 4x (or interworking with another Blyth 'X' service)
Service 306:
NEW Service 307:
- Reduced to every 30 minutes and Tynemouth to Newcastle only.
- Will no longer serve Battle Hill Drive.
- Journeys to Tynemouth operate via Christ Church in North Shields. Journeys towards Newcastle unchanged.
- Journeys will terminate near Hotspur Street in Tynemouth before following the current evening route towards Newcastle via Percy Park Road.
Service 308:
- Every 30 minutes.
- Same route as service 306 between Whitley Bay and Preston Grange Morrisons via Marden Estate. Then via Beach Road to Billy Mill then same route as 306/308 to Newcastle.
NEW Service X38:
- Reduced to every 30 minutes and Whitley Bay Town Centre to Newcastle only.
- Section of route between Blyth and Whitley Bay Town Centre replaced by service X38.
- Every 30 minutes.
- Same route & stopping arrangements as service 308 in current form between Blyth and Billy Mill.
- Limited stop between Billy Mill and Newcastle only calling at Norham Road and Willington Square.
You really need to stop looking at these services as Coast Road services and look at the other end for once. The 306 from Billy Mill to Tynemouth is the only bus service for the majority of the route and your planning to give them a 30 minute service and nothing else. The 306 between Tynemouth and Whitley is about creating links inbetween, no-one in their right mind would use it to Newcastle. Marden estate has had numerous buses going direct to Newcastle and they've all ended the same way (failed) there isn't the demand - simply. I never understand your obsession with cutting services which have worked perfectly fine since the 1980's and beyond, usually bus enthiasts want to improve / make things better for the passenger not the pockets of big corporates.
Also the 306 must start at Grand Parade for Longsands beach where it's always started / ended for layover reasons unless your planning to block the road for a bus out of service.
(19 Sep 2020, 10:01 pm)ASX_Terranova wrote New Service 56 (Newcastle): Haymarket - South Gosforth - Four Lane Ends - Benton ASDA - Northumberland Park - Backworth - Seghill
Return of old 723 as X13
That 56 pretty much duplicates the Metro for it's length can't see it being too popular and can't imagine there's much demand between Backworth and Seghill to warrent a bus route sadly.