Sapphire 5/5a
- 5a is cut back to Skelton Hollybush Estate - daytime journeys officially terminate at the Hollybush Hotel with the evening terminating trips running all the way to Rievaulx Road End
- Journeys now operate 7 minutes later during the day - departures from Middlesbrough are now xx12 (5a) xx27 (5 via Skinningrove) xx42 (5a) xx57 (5 via Liverton Mines)
- Peak time journeys remain every 10 minutes
- Later journeys from Whitby added at 2007 to Middlesbrough - this also results in an extension of the 1805 from Middlesbrough to Whitby (departure now 1810) with no X4 journeys to Easington weekdays
- Daytime journeys will now leave Middlesbrough at xx05 and xx35, Whitby at xx07 and xx37
- Short journeys on 17s are re-routed in Ingleby Barwick to serve Beckfields and operating a one-way loop round the Estate - now only serving Lowfields and the Teal Arms on the return to Middlesbrough