(18 Sep 2023, 9:34 pm)Unber43 wrote To add to this this ended up with the buses from 20 mins late to 90 mins late on the last runs of the day (all depaturtes from Newcastle + there return from Middlesbrough)And this is why GNE need a dual X10 & X21 fleet of E400MMC rather than the same 4x getting a hammering up and down the A19. Works perfectly well at Ashington with 7541-52 and 7563-81 being mixed between the X21/X22 and X14/X15/X18/X20.
17:15 ended up being 90 mins late coming back to Newcastle - 6357
18:20 ended up being about 30 mins late - 6312
19:20 so far at Hartlepool is about an 60 mins late - 6353
20:20 so far leaving Middlesbrough is about 30 mins late - 6355
Depending on what the 6 could interwork with as it wouldn't be reliable standalone just Stanley to Newcastle, extending the X31 to Lanchester would make the Stanley remote reliefs more efficient and provide a reliable X30/X31 interworking with each other standalone from other service groups.
X45 could interwork with the X71/X72 using StreetDecks or B5TLs.
Consett:
- 6336, 6337, 6338, 6339, 6340, 6341 - Total PVR of 4x (X30/X31) + 2x spare
Riverside
- 6342-55 - Total PVR of 12x (X10 & X21) + 2x spare
And from a reliability POV depending on whether there's any VOR.....a new bus & driver instead of a van could be sent from Consett to Stanley to pick up the X30 meaning that any delays from earlier X30 & X31 runs could be regulated too!
X30 (STY>NCL) > X31 (NCL>LAN) > X31 (LAN>NCL) > X30 (NCL>STY)