(10 Dec 2012, 7:57 pm)Michael wrote Would be good to see the X9/X10 in to Sunderland but don't think it would happen, if so it probley's be 1 a hour.
Which way would it go its quite a long way from the A19 to Park Lane, including Traffic etc
It would be nice to see a bus to Middlesbough/Darlington from Sunderland like the good old days.
Like to see the X88 run more often, shame not enough people use it.
In an idealistic situation, they would cover the same route as the X3 from Newcastle to Park Lane - it would still serve Gateshead, Heworth and Boldon, but would not serve places like Fulwell etc that the current X3 service does. Should members of the public wish to alight the bus there, they should use an alternative service (ie the 26 or 9, as mentioned above). So, we can conclude as the service is missing out a series of stops, it will take less than 53 minutes to get from Newcastle to Sunderland as the current X3 does, and perhaps, more like 45 minutes.
From Sunderland, the service would not stop until it got to Peterlee. To get to Peterlee, it would follow the same route as the 60/61 etc to Ryhope. From Ryhope, it isn't so difficult to navigate its way back onto the A19. Perhaps this would take approximately 25 minutes from Sunderland to Peterlee? From there, the services could resume their normal regimes... The X9 serves Peterlee, while the X10 doesn't, and the X10 serves Stockton while the X9 does not.
If, for whatever reason, this was ever suggested to GNE and they decided to elaborate on this suggestion... They could work it so the X9 serves Sunderland and misses Peterlee and Stockton while the X10 doesn't serve Sunderland but serves both Peterlee and Stockton?
Meh, I don't know. Always thought it stupid that the X9/X10 don't serve Sunderland though.