(21 May 2018, 7:16 pm)Jimmi wrote Funny you mention this, a thought that I had the other day was merging the 88 with the Scarlet Band 20 route to create one through Darlington - Stockton route to open up more links to the likes of Longnewton and Sadberge (maybe even restore a bus service to Brafferton?), although it may be a struggle to fit in a decent number of journeys on the service if it interworked around college contracts, also it would no longer run to Yarm and also no longer run between Darlington and Neasham.
Darlington market ain't what it once was though, even from when I was a bairn.
I forgot about the Scarlet Band 20 to be honest.
I think a couple of journeys a day would probably suffice. Couple in the morning/afternoon in each direction.
The idea of extending the X8 was to supplement the short runs, but it would need an increase to the PVR - which may or may not be sustainable.