(29 Oct 2016, 11:07 pm)Jamie M wrote You'll not get a decker or even a scania around fines park, not in a million years. That also adds time and makes the whole journey even more counterintuitive. 6s don't run onto 6s because of timing issues also until night. It takes 80 minutes during the day, even without stopping in teams. It's paramount it runs onto something else which is quick, or it can take over 3 hours end to end, easily.
The system currently is fine, except for the tanfield lea stretch, which is somewhat deprived. Running the V8 at a higher frequency and for later would remedy this.
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But if you follow the route of the V7 to MetroCentre it takes 42 Minutes, 44 on the V8. If extended to Newcastle then it would take an hour. The 6 on the other hand takes an hour just to get to the Metrocentre, and 80 Minutes to Newcastle.
With my suggestion there would 20 Minutes difference in either direction with the Clockwise/Anti Clockwise Loop which would improve reliability, and from looking at the timetable for the 6, it looks like the 6 already gets 10 Minutes layover at Stanley as it is, plus with current interworkings the 6 would go onto the X70/X71 to Consett from Newcastle rather than return to Stanley as my suggestion would allow.
As for the Fines Park we'll skip that out then if a Decker can't get around there.