(Yesterday, 11:04 pm)Aaron21 wrote It doesn't need to return. The x10 has been around for 2 nearly 3 years (I think). There's no need to bring it back. If the X10 was made every 30 minutes it would work better. Idk why people have this idea of restore the X9 will help in anyway. Even if the X9 came back what would it solve. A split frequency again which nobody wants. Honestly I think the X1 needs to be rerouted to serve Dalton Park & Peterlee via the A19 as why introduced it back then and then cut it. It would save the 61 being actually used along that section. 55 was cut cause of the X1 going that way. Now u have the X1 & 61 serve more if not the same way to Peterlee and it's daft. 

Anyways the X9 doesn't need to return. People have gotten used to the X10 and won't need the confusing of "which one serves Dalton & Which one serves Peterlee". Hell putting it lightly the X1 picks up more passengers on the Peterlee journeys. 

Also the X1 & X10 imo shouldn't use the same stand at Eldon. The queue is massive and u don't know which people are waiting for which

But if the X10 was re-increased to half-hourly throughout the full route, it would need a PVR of 8x....although perhaps a short could run between Peterlee and Newcastle to make that section half-hourly, but would still need a PVR of 6x (which was the original X9/X10 PVR before the 2017 increase).

But any increases on the X10 (or re-introduction of X9) would definitely need changes to the X30s/X70s and X45 (reducing the low bridge PVR) to ensure there's enough suitable vehicles available which could handle the route. Or some of the current X30/X70 boards changed to single deckers.

Other option would be shifting 2x E400MMC from Consett (leaving 14x) and allocating B5TLs to the X45 with the X20 eventually getting some 51/2/93/4 / TVT / Cobalt B9TLs from the Angel cascade chain. Would still give 6377 as spare covering a PVR of 6x on the X10 if half hourly Newcastle to Peterlee, but Consett would struggle to keep a full decker allocation on the X30s/X70s especially given 6337's track record.