(18 Jun 2018, 12:22 pm)BusLoverMum wrote Haha! ANE Durham and Northumberland barely meet in the middle!

Hopefully this will be a relief for people in Hull and particularly East Yorkshire as so many have lost tgrth services altogether because EYMS couldn't afford to run them on the subsidies given.

Exactly. X12 and that's it, but at least there is something.
As you know, there's a huge gap south of Durham/Darlington/Teesside, despite several of their services crossing in to Yorkshire.
I don't think it would be too demanding to extend an existing service or introduce a new one, so that the Yorkshire and NE had those links.
Not sure a extension of the X26/27 to York would be viable, but an extension of a Selby-York service to Ripon and an X26 to Ripon so connections are possible - may be.

(18 Jun 2018, 1:44 pm)tcts24 wrote Wasn't it the Cowie Group (now Arriva) that offloaded it's Ripon depot onto Blazefield, which vaguely connected it's Yorkshire and North East companies at the time?  I'm pretty sure United had the 36 to Leeds well into the 90's and I seem to recall from my teens, getting on an Optare MetroRider with my mother from Darlington to Ripon.

It rang a bell, checked it out and it was 96 that it was sold by Cowies. 
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrogate_Bus_Company