(30 Nov 2015, 12:34 pm)MrFozz wrote I have been saying the same for nearly 10 years now, but the roads in and out are awkward, even now with Phase 2 nearing completion, there is not looking like any vast improvement on getting off the A19 to DP...It is pretty simple going North, straight off and back on, going going South, you have get off and double back on yourself to get into Dalton Park, if a new road was built to go in through the back, that may work, but at present you could probably add quite a few minutes at least getting into DP heading South, on a bad day it can take forever just to get off the A19.
One way round your suggestion, would be the X9 or X10 to come off the A19 at Seaton and follow the 61 to Dalton Park, maybe even add a stop at the Mallard at Deneside(I believe it goes that way when it is on Diversion anyway if the A19 is shut in that area)
The TTX is often over capacity already without stopping off at another major centre. It would also beging to defeat the point of the "Express" in its name. It's currently a genuinely fast long distance service.
GNE's links to Dalton Park from the south and west are surprisingly poor, mind. Arriva seems to have the monopoly, there, with the 22. Getting there from somewhere like Houghton is a complete faff on.