(16 Nov 2013, 5:44 pm)Adam Malarkey wrote 2 Notes from Yesterday Evening
I was the 18:10pm X1 Last Night from Newcastle back to Washington and the X3 was on the Stand in Eldon Square also, and there were only 3 Passengers on Board. How is this Journey let alone the X3 itself a Viable route for GNE.
The other note was for Wheyaye50 Scania 4926 which was running late and left the Galleries at 7pm heading as far Chester le Street, I think a Engineer needs to take a look at this Bus as not only did sound worse for ware and smelt smokey inside, worse than a SPD I would say, the Brakes were also rather squealy.
I could ask the same about services such as the M2/M3. On many occasions I've seen those services running with very few passenger numbers - at peaks and non-peaks.
I used to use that X3 journey daily in the summer, and it was always quite full. With it being winter now, I don't use it anymore. I wonder if others are the same? Cold, dark nights... I don't want to be out in Newcastle at that time, returning to Sunderland!
I'm sure Go North East know what they're doing - if any journeys were so bad that they were making a loss, they wouldn't exist.