(13 Mar 2015, 7:41 pm)Michael wrote Is the Sunderland to Peterlee section busy on the X21/22/23, which service is the busiest?
Hopefully that happens on the 22, i read on here i think, once the 7 went Sapphire, passenger numbers went up quickly.
Not particularly...
The X21 arrives and departs Sunderland empty most of the time outside of peaks. The morning peak run operated by Stockton tends to have more than the normal Darlington peak run, but it's still far from great. No more than ten on this run, usually.
Services 22/23 carry more or less the same amount of passengers now. The old 24 service used to carry more passengers than the 23, but it seems to have evened out with the 23 improving since the Streetlites entered service.
Peterlee - Durham is the busy section on the 22. I'd assume that it's being upgraded to "Sapphire" specification with the hope of improving passenger numbers...