(26 Apr 2024, 4:04 pm)deanmachine wrote Back when the 88 went to Riverside depot they'd do changeovers at Jarrow bus station, way further than Deptford and Washington were. You can see why they've consolidated their South Tyneside only routes now at Deptford so they interwork with the 24 and 9.
Aye definitely, just overkill. Be surprised if that made money as it was aswell as it never comes across as one of those money spinners (not saying it makes a loss either mind).
It'll be interesting to see what happens if franchising comes in as there's a noticeable gap of depots in certain areas, especially East Durham, South Durham and North Northumberland. There's arguably nothing at all 3 and if they use the Manchester model they can't exactly expect to run it all from Belmont, Deptford or Ashington as they're too far away and they can't really force Weardale etc to sell up either as they have a coach business beyond their few contacts and that's before going into discussions about the state of the likes of Chichester, Washington, Percy Main and Hexham which are all tired, as an understatement and questionable whether they could really support any form of electric buses due to lack of space.
Darlington and Hartlepool depots obviously being out of bounds as they're beyond the area.