(09 Jan 2016, 10:48 am)scania driver wrote Dan. I'm talking here about a direct service between Hartlepool and DARLINGTON, I know that there are services by Stagecoach to Middlesbrough. Presently the options to get between the two locations are either costly - Stagecoach 1 or 36 to Boro change to Arriva X66/7, costing nearly £13.00 and taking between 90 and 150 mins depending. The other option, to keep the cost down is to travel Arriva to either Peterlee or Durham and change to the respective services. Cost £7.70. Journey and connection times unthinkable. Hopefully my tenure here in Hartlepool will come to and end this year and I can move back to Arrivaland.There is also the Explorer ticket, which would be cheaper than the price quoted to use SNE and ANE via Middlesbrough (or Stockton).
In the service suggestions thread, I proposed a service between Hartlepool and Stockton, via Wynyard and Sedgefield. As well as improving connections to the employment sites at Wynyard and the proposed new school off the A689, it would assist people visiting North Tees hospital following the transfer of services within Hartlepool.
It could also give you the option of transferring on to a Darlo service in Sedgefield.
I do think it strange there is a lack of a direct service between Hartlepool and Sedgefield, but I wonder if it has anything to do with the villages in between.
I am not sure the demand would exist to add another bus to the villages and communities that already have a service to Peterlee or Durham.
Obviously those passengers would add to any through traffic on the Hartlepool - Darlo service.
The other option, would be to use the A66 - but that seems covered with the X66/67.