(10 Sep 2023, 10:08 am)Adrian wrote Yes, much like the 50. It'll be rammed on red hot weekends like this, but other days it'll carry no more than a handful at any one time.I definetly think a Summer X50 would be needed, but the 65 not so, its pretty direct and under an hour journey aswell, but I think if anything the 65 could be increased to 20 mins during the summer time and possibily interwork with something like an X50.
I think having seasonal services would work better than tampering with existing timetables, e.g. if there were a mass of folk wanting to travel from Hetton and Murton to Seaham, then run something direct and express. Even if it's just one bus operating on a two-hourly frequency.
X50>65>65>X50 I would say operated by CLS as they used to do the 65 aswell, and the 50 but its no longer there, so Washington would probs do it.
Wouldn't hurt them much to trial it, like from 9am-6pm, or just weekends really, theyll have plenty of deckers over the summer