(16 Jul 2018, 3:08 pm)James101 wrote I
Until around 2007 the Peterlee network had been resonably stable for a long time. From what I remember the operated:

One main service group was all Arriva services into Hartlepool except the 33, which was a Bishop route - i.e:

22 Durham - Wingate - Hartlepool 
230 Hartlepool - Horden - Sunderland 
242 Hartlepool - Peterlee - Durham (Plus evening & Sunday variation 243)

Another group was the 212/3/4/5 from Sunderland to (in various revisions) Middlesbrough, Darlington, Thornley, Deaf Hill & Thornaby.

Whilst I remember those two groups being the main work of the depot there was also miscellaneous work such as the X27 to the Metrocentre, 246 Hutton Henry circular & 239 evening Easington - Sedgefield. 

Peterlee town services were operated by Jayline, which became Go North East Jayline/East Durham/Indigo. 

Peterlee depot survived long enough to see the network recast as the 21/22/23/24/25 group of services as well as briefly operating tendered service 3A in Hartlepool and recive new Solos shortly before closing with the work transferred to Belmont. 

Others may remember more than me.

Also the 26 and 27.
And 216.

I wouldn’t call it stable as the 215 operated by 2 buses which usually only 1 bus operated every 2 hours instead of hourly due to vehicle off the road and missing oakerside out which you get a service every 3 hours through oakerside, when there were 2 buses allocated to the 216 and one was off the road then the service only did deaf hill to Peterlee only and not the Sunderland section, I’m sure just before leading up to the closure of Peterlee depot that there had all the crap left out from other depots lol, can’t remember how many free tickets that I’ve received from Arriva through the post from buses that don’t turn up at the bus stop and having to get taxis.


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