(24 Dec 2017, 5:42 pm)Kuyoyo wrote You have to wonder if higher management at Stagecoach like making the running boards overly complicated. There's a few of the Saturday ones in Middlesbrough that make you wonder if the drivers know if they are coming or going. And that's before starting on the overly complicated evening turns where the Stockton lads now take a bus over mid afternoon and kept the same one all night (resulting in the drivers on the late 36s having their breaks at Hartlepool depot)

Their intention probably isn't to make them complicated, but to make them as efficient as possible.

The recent changes in Newcastle to the X47 and X77/78/79/82 come as a surprise to me - it seems very out of character for them not only to add extra buses to the PVR to improve reliability, but also making other services less efficient by doing so. That's why I was querying if they definitely were having them have such a large layover period in Eldon Square.

All these crazy interworking patterns will make sense to someone, somewhere!