(05 Apr 2022, 4:01 pm)Storx wrote Ngl I was thinking the same thing but not sure there's the demand though. Mind I'd change it around so it's
X11 - Newcastle - Gateshead - Sunderland - Peterlee - Billingham - Middlesbrough - Whitby - Scarborough
X11A - Washington - Chester Le Street - Durham - Sedgefield - Stockton - Whitby - Scarborough
The Newcastle route there from Newcastle would take hours via Darlington and I can't see them using it anyway as they could just do X66/X67 -> X93 on Arriva Day Tickets. The route the X12 takes omitting Coxhoe is by far the most sensible route imo.
The X12 is worse as you'd have two X12's in Middlesbrough like.
There was definitely demand from Washington last summer as on numerous occasions a second vehicle had to be provided to avoid leaving passengers behind, I do think this needs to be handled better this year if the X11 does return by having a vehicle on Standby at The Galleries rather than coming from Riverside dead an hour later.
I'd also potentially omit Gateshead given connections from the X10 at Peterlee/Stockton and Middlesbrough thus speeding up the Newcastle to Sunderland section to operate similarly to that of Megabus/NatEx Services.