(15 Apr 2022, 7:43 pm)L469 YVK wrote Not really if you think about it. Low Fell & Durham Road has 8x per hour with the 21 plus the X12, X21, 25 taking that to 14x per hour.

The Coast Road between Station Road and Newcastle Haymarket has had (excluding 307, 38, 51, 51A, X8, X9)

2004 - 14x :
- 306 & 308 - 8x per hour
- 300 & 305 - 6x per hour

2006 - 16x :
- 306 & 308 - 8x per hour
- 305, 315 & 316 - 8x per hour

2007 - 18x:
- As above but with the then 'new' 309 every 30 minutes and I believe an 'enhanced' pink panther 307 also every 30 minutes.

2008 - 22x:
- 306 & 308 - 8x per hour
- 75 & 76, 309 - 8x per hour (75 & 76 replaced by 310 in 2010)
- 58 (City Centre) - 6x per hour

2012 - 19x:
- 306 & 308 - 8x per hour
- 309 & 310 - 8x per hour
- 58 (replaced by 57 in 2016) - 3x per hour

2020 - 17x
- 306 & 308 - 8x per hour
- 309 & 310 & 311 - 9x per hour

12x per hour (all 20 mins each) would take the number below pre 2004 levels but all services would be double deck operated unlike then.

And in 1983 you had:

306 (Newcastle - Tynemouth) - 4bph
308 (Newcastle - Blyth) - 4bph
309 (Newcastle - Blyth) - 1bph

A total of 9 buses per hour.

The same frequency can be applied to 1984, 1985 and 1986.

This is a snapshot of four-year period where 'partnerships' were in place by virtue of the Tyne and Wear Public Transport Executive, and bus patronage was considerably more than it is today.

A partnership will result in less buses, no-more than 10 per hour by my estimation, tootling along the Coast Road because, as competition subsides, the duplication of routes will stop.

There is absolutely no need for 17 buses per hour along the Coast Road between Newcastle and Northam Road.