(28 Oct 2013, 9:48 pm)VolvoMarkII wrote That is absolute tosh.
A bus service arriving into Newcastle for just before 8am should be carrying a decent load.
Its obvious this service is another service that will be pruned in the near future. Carrying small pockets of cash fares and loads of OAP's leads to a service that just will not pay for itself.
The OK1 died with this, the X7 is prooving it again (due to be cut back also). This X84/X85 is another.
Will be interesting to see how brand loyalty lies when the Arriva revisions to the 685 kick in.
The X7 has good numbers on them, doing good, im on the X7 twice a day (early morning and at early evening)and its been busy, GNE are only cancelling part of the timetable where passengers are not using it, as its no point running the first one all the way down to Middlesbrough and back to Peterlee just for the sake of one person etc... plus GNE are going to make it all stops in Peterlee area which would be good.