(27 Mar 2016, 3:42 pm)DaveyBowyer wrote Looking at some of the routes on a Bank Holiday, I think they should operate to these timetables giving the best of reduced costs whilst meeting demand during the day:

GNE:
- Coaster 1/1A every 15 minutes between Whitley Bay and Gateshead with hourly / half hourly extensions as per usual Sunday timetable to Kibblesworth or Wrekenton during the daytime.

- Simplicity 2/2A every 30 minutes each combining every 15 minutes during the daytime.

- Connections 4 every 10 minutes between Heworth and Fallowfield Way continuing every 20 minutes to
Houghton Le Spring during the daytime.

- Red Arrows X1 every 15 minutes during the daytime.

- TEN 10 / 10A / 10B normal Saturday service during the daytime.

- Angel 21 normal Saturday service during the daytime.

- Castles Express X21 normal Saturday service.

- Crusader 27 every 15 minutes during the daytime.

- Red Kite 45 / 46 / 47 normal Saturday service during the daytime.

- Fab 56 every 15 minutes during the daytime.

- Drifter 60 every 15 minutes during the daytime.

- Drifter 61 every 15 minutes during the daytime.

- Loop 93 / 94 normal Saturday service during the daytime.

- Cobalt Clipper 309 / 310 every 20 minutes each or every 10 minutes combined during the daytime.
Note that these could run every 15 minutes each (7-8 combined) with the 309 only continuing between Blyth and Whitley Bay every 30 minutes.

Arriva:
- X21 / X22 every 30 minutes each or every 15 minutes combined during the daytime.

- 35 every 60 minutes during the daytime.

- X10 / X11 every 30 minutes each or every 15 minutes combined during the daytime.

- X16 every 60 minutes between Morpeth and Newcastle interworking with service 35 at Morpeth.
This would provide a bus every 30 minutes between Morpeth and Newcastle combined with service X18
as well as the additional X15 journeys which normally operate.

- Coastliner 306 / 308 every 20 minutes each or every 10 minutes combined during the daytime.
Note that these could run every 15 minutes each (7-8 combined) with the 308 only continuing between Blyth and Whitley Bay every 30 minutes or even every 15 minutes.