(13 Oct 2015, 8:45 am)Greg in Weardale wrote It's a pity that these through workings to and from Lanchester aren't advertised in the timetable.
With hindsight, my previous post was probably poorly worded...
If I remember rightly, Go North East stated in the consultation that they would look to provide 'guaranteed connections' at Stanley at peak times. Strictly speaking, they're not 'through journeys', so perhaps not the best idea to advertise them as such..?
On an evening, Stagecoach in Sunderland services 3 (possibly 13) and 20 interwork, with journeys split in Sunderland City Centre. I regularly made use of that 'guaranteed connection' by staying on the bus a few years ago (and I know a few others did once they realised they could do that). I suspect it'll be a similar story with these peak-time journeys on services 30 and X30/X31, and it'll be the same faces making use of these connections every day once they realise it's possible to do.