(13 May 2015, 5:54 pm)Malarkey wrote Think the evening Service through Chester le Street is proven to be even more dreadful, when the last bus through to Washington is the 50 at 21:40, means that on Friday when I finish work at 10pm I will have to get the 21 to Gateshead then the X1 to The Galleries followed by a 10 Minute walk home, or Alternatively I stop at my Dads in Low Fell unless I can get a lift back to Washington.
That doesn't really have much to do with the point Andreos was making at all. As Chester-le-Street is a hub, customers are expected to use this as a connection point from main services (such as the 21) to other more local services (such as the 34). The disadvantage to this comes on a night, when services do not run as frequently, meaning that customers have to rely on tight connections or have to wait around for long periods of time to ensure they meet their connection.
On to the point you're trying to make... Perhaps if the demand existed for services from Chester-le-Street to Washington at that hour, they'd exist? The majority of the evening 50A services are secured by a third party, which suggests a lot about the profitability of these routes before 22:00 to begin with...