(26 Oct 2013, 8:58 pm)Adam Malarkey wrote In one Journey on the 56 from Sunderland to Newcastle back it takes 2Hours and 8 Minutes and stops a Total of 85 Times. So as Result of Stopping this many times and the impact of the School Run/Rush Hour Traffic at Various Points of the Service is it no wonder the odd journey ends up Terminating at Gateshead due to being over 10 Minutes late, Not really worth heading into Newcastle and becoming even later as a Result.

According to the 56 timetable, it takes 1 hour and 10 minutes to get from Sunderland to Newcastle and 1 hour and 12 minutes back to Sunderland from Newcastle.

I find that Go North East have quite tight timetables on certain routes. For example, I've found that now that the 27 has had a few extra minutes padded in to the timetable (albeit on a very odd 10/11 minute frequency), reliability has increased greatly. I personally think that the 58 could do with a few minutes padded in to the timetable too.