(03 Jan 2015, 7:10 pm)MarcTheA4 wrote An express version of Service 7.
Currently takes 1 hour and 9 minutes between Durham and Darlington, here's a rough plan for an express service I've devised...
Darlington Tubwell Row - 52 minutes past
Aycliffe Village North Briton - 07 minutes past
Newton Aycliffe Churchill House - 13 minutes past
Ferryhill Bus Station - 26 minutes past
Neville's Cross Church - 35 minutes past
Durham Bus Station - 37 minutes past
Durham Bus Station - 00 minutes past
Neville's Cross Church - 02 minutes past
Ferryhill Bus Station - 11 minutes past
Newton Aycliffe Churchill House - 24 minutes past
Aycliffe Village North Briton - 30 minutes past
Darlington Tubwell Row - 45 minutes past
What does anyone think?
Driver would get 23 minutes layover in Durham and 7 minutes in Darlington - probably a bit unfair on the Darlington side of things (as I believe this where driver changeovers occur?) so things could probably be evened out to 15 minutes layour on both sides.
Or, things could infer work so an X7 coming into Darlo could go back out as a 7, so they would interwork.
Some of them times are a bit tight and the route is pretty much the old 723 route except missing Chilton out. Old 723 timetable from the bygone Era:
http://northeastbuses.co.uk/archive/GoNo...ch2003.pdf
I'm not sure how much demand there is for a Durham to Darlington as it has to compete with the train and many of the 7's passengers are local eg. Aycliffe - Darlington and Ferryhill - Durham.
Also would this suggestion be limited stop or all stops.