(05 May 2015, 11:19 am)Andreos1 wrote With going via Wynyard, it wouldn't serve the Trimdons etc. They have overkill as it is.
This would go via the A689 between Sedgefield and Hartlepool.
With Hartlepool hospital on seemingly gradual shutdown and services being moved to North Tees, I think this could work.
Passengers travelling locally could add to numbers and for those waiting for an X12 (or whatever number it is going by these days), this could help that.
There is also the business park on the A19 junction, that could be a peak diversion.
I'm not sure there'd be a lot of money in it, Sedgefield-Hartlepool was always tendered when Arriva ran it as the 33, now runs between Sedgefield and Ferryhill only of course (operated by Scarlet Band).
As for trips between the hospitals - the NHS trust currently run a roughly half hourly shuttle service between the two, whether they would be willing to convert this into funding towards a commercial bus service I'm not so sure, especially given journey times would increase.