(13 Apr 2024, 3:13 pm)Storx wrote It wouldn't be an express bus though if it stopped everywhere though. If you wanted to serve North Hartlepool, you'd be better doing a bus that links Horden station and Hartlepool and have the buses connecting with the trains, with through fares etc.
You could even make the case for a station at Hart / West View really. The railway line needs investment is the answer imo, it's shockingly poor for the amount of places it serves.
A bus from Hartlepool to Newcastle / Sunderland would be just too long and unattractive and would just duplicate other services ie. 23/24 beyond that. The fact the 22/24, between Sunderland and Peterlee is already dead suggests the demand isn't there.
I have already suggested what route it could do and it not duplication any other services. The X5 and 231 both ran between Hartlepool and Newcastle fit decades. The X10 is always packed so I think the demand is there if it was tried.