(20 May 2016, 9:23 am)BusLoverMum wrote Doesn't surprise me. It fits the bill!
Wondering if t 15 minute frequency of the 43 is frequent enough, too.
I don't think the 43 would - mainly due to the fact it is a mixed type working route (2 boards are decker operated as one drops off for schools mid afternoon).
(20 May 2016, 10:08 am)Jimmi wrote Well it wouldn't be the first time Arriva and Go North East have had services with the same service number crossing the same route, at peak times Arriva does a X85 between Newcastle and Hexham which obviously is the same number as GNE have although I think the Arriva service started before GNE's. Go North East seemed to take a few of Arriva's service numbers in Durham before, there certainly was the 43 and 50, although the routes only crossed in the Bus Station, think there may have been more.
Arriva ran the X85 years before GNE started theirs.