(03 Oct 2013, 5:07 pm)Daniel wrote Well, on top of what Michael has already given examples of: I suggested a Sunderland - Middlesbrough express - though I did, rather irrationally admittedly, suggest that one of the TTX services were re-routed.
We've got the X7 now!
I know that the Sunderland to Peterlee express section was already in the pipeline when the late Peter Huntley was MD at GNE, and then it more or less followed the old 211 route at Wingate section.
I remember when GNE on facebook mentioned the X7 arrival and saying about this will be the first time that these 2 places will be put together by bus, even though Arriva used to run the 214 between these 2 places and GNE already operated the 210 between Sunderland and Middlesbrough then later on became the number 30 between Sunderland and Hartlepool as at that time Arriva and GNE were on each overs toes.