(09 Oct 2014, 11:51 am)NEBCD Malarkey wrote To be honest I think it pretty obvious what the Problem is with the 56, and that is the fact it stops at Every Single Stop between Sunderland and Newcastle, so if it then Stops at each of the 49 Stops for 30+ Seconds then it's clearly going to accumulate added time to the Journey and this where they start running in 2's and 3's because they can't keep to Timetable.That's the problem with stage carriage services.
If they didn't have to keep stopping to pick up and put down passengers they could maintain the schedule.
Crowded services will suffer bunching as following vehicles have less passengers to pickup, so less stopping needed.
'Twas always thus . . .