(26 Jun 2018, 11:39 am)S830OFT wrote 5: Extended to Durham under a Every 30 minutes frequency.
6: Reduced to Every 20 minutes with one journey an hour to Cockfield and also extended to Barnard Castle. Sunday journeys will also operate to Barnard Castle hourly.
Service 5 and 6 will combine to provide the current 5 buses an hour between Bishop Auckland and Durham.
7: To reduce the amount of passengers boarding at Tubwell Row, this service will depart from outside the Dolphin Centre, Feethams. Services 5/5A/8/X21 will continue to observe Tubwell Row.
X21: This service will operate limited stop on North Road in Darlington, and also operate as a express service in Grangetown only observing the stops the X6/X7 observe. This will enable drivers to get an extra few minutes break as usually the drivers are sitting ducks for 4 hours.
23: Withdrawn, replaced by increased frequencys on services 22 and 24. Connections are available at Peterlee.
22/24: Mon - Sat daytime journeys will be increased to Every 20 minutes. Evening and Sunday journeys will be increased to Every 30 minutes.
PVR:
5: 8 (Will keep current allocation) 1602 - 1609 will be allocated, Brand new buses ordered for 1/5A/19.
6: 8 (Will receive cascaded buses) 1610 - 1613, 7518 - 7521. 1614 will be spare bus.
Service 5 and 6 will be operated by Belmont, as such some journeys will interwork.
X21: 4 (4808 - 4811)
Following service changes a range of Vehicles will be freed up.
22/24: 19 (Will have a mixed allocation) 1498, 1507, 1517 - 1521, 1524 - 1533, 7523, 7539.
The remaining pulsars will remain allocated at Belmont, mainly as spare buses. 1512 and 1513 will transfer from Jesmond to Belmont to become the spare buses for services 22/24.
1595 - 1601 to Stockton for service 7 allowing pulsars to replace cadets on service 17.
What would serve easington colliery instead of the 23. The 22 only has time to squeeze that in on a Sunday, when there are fewer delays at either end.