(21 Jan 2024, 12:58 pm)L469 YVK wrote As promised
Arriva times and Go North East times colour coordinated accordingly too. Note that Sunday daytime X10/X11's would need to interwork with service 306. Stand's L & M at Haymarket would also need barriers removed and merged into a bigger Stand L with 2x bays (you'll see what I mean in the timetable).
Another consideration.....would the X38/308 continue to run via Ridley Park, or could Ridley Park maybe be picked up by an alternative service so that the X38/308 can retain some of the links provided on the Broadway by service 309?
In a nutshell, the whole motives behind the suggested changes are:
* Reduce overbussing especially between NT Hospital and Blyth.
* Improve reliability especially between Blyth and North Tyneside - more robust timetables that should hopefully cover a 'sunny day'.
* Improved links for the Marden Estate and quicker journey time into Newcastle.
* Reduced wastage such as the long evening 306 & 307 layovers in Tynemouth & North Shields.
That 309 would carry around fresh air, it's literally resurrecting the X9 from around 2012, which failed miserably as it's way too long from Marden estate and serves nothing else in the process. Only someone mad would use it over the X38 as it's not competitive from Whitley Bay.