(04 Jul 2014, 5:54 pm)NEBCD Malarkey wrote Go North East say otherwise
Back on Topic, How else can you improve the 71
I guess there are two ways to spell it - even Wikipedia says 'Fencehouses' - but we know how unreliable they are!
I would do something like this -
# 71
Houghton-Le-Spring - Newbottle - Bournmoor - Fencehouses - Woodstone - Lumley - Chester
# 71A
Houghton-Le-Spring - Newbottle - Bournmoor - Fencehouses - Woodstone - Lumley - Chester - Washington - Biddick - Washington - Chester
Just a rough draft, so once an hour a 71 would run, and then a 71A would run next in that repeating pattern. Possibly an interworking at Houghton, so a 71 comes in from Chester, then goes back as a 71A and so on.