(11 Jan 2014, 5:25 pm)aureolin wrote The X2 isnt heavily used as it is. Doubling the Durham to Newcastle frequency would be a waste in my eyes, and the money would be better spent introducing a double frequency on the X1 portion of the route.
The rest of that route for your X3 is covered by the 7, which already has 4 buses an hour. I assume ANE would have ordered deckers for the 7 if they felt there was more demand.
At many times the 7 does need double deckers, but they went for the Pulsar option as the depot manager at Darlington will not allow double deckers into his depot, so there were two options:
1. Go for a split operation with pulsars or
2. Go for a double deck operation and give all 11 buses to Durham
I don't think Darlington would have been prepared to do the second option at all since the 7 earns a lot of revenue.