(15 Aug 2018, 10:18 pm)mb134 wrote "Arriva prove themselves unreliable" - I wonder if you've given much thought to why the Alnwick services aren't always bang on time, or how often you use them and understand why? The A1 north of Morpeth is a single carriageway for much of the X15 route, and is frequently at a standstill. Morpeth traffic is also ridiculously unpredictable, and can be awful at various points of the day. Also "unreliable" - yes they're usually 5-10 minutes late, but in all the time I've used them, they've never failed to turn up.
The N1 - I don't understand how that route would be any more reliable than the X15. The issue with the X15 is, mainly, the A1 between Morpeth and Alnwick, and Morpeth itself. There also isn't an awful lot of demand for a really slow route to the Airport. Most people will get a taxi, or an express to Regent Centre and catch a Metro.
Not quoting multiple posts, so this applies to all of the three above posts.
I agree with all this (above quoted post), X15 etc has more often than not been close to time most of the times I've used it but of course there is some instances where this isn't the case for whatever reasons. Will additionally add that his route suggestion to Newcastle is similar to the old 44 that carried very few passengers between Morpeth and Dinnington. Would also dread to think how much it would cost to run one of those Versa's to Newcastle and back and how would the 470/473 run if one of the buses for the service is heading to/from Newcastle?
With regards to promotion of their services, considering they set up a Facebook page and suddenly deleted it says it all... So good luck at any sense of promotion.
Just been on PCLs website and the M1 timetable which is a Nexus one has been cut and edited and now indicates that there is now only an M1 Monday to Fridays departing Morpeth for Thropton at 10am, all other journeys have seemingly being dropped all of a sudden including the diverted Wednesday service and Sunday service to the Metrocentre, however I see no changes registered on VOSA since November 2017 and the Sunday M1 registration is still 'registered' which sounds fishy but let us not forget the 79 to Kingston Park or wherever it went and seemingly morphed into a circular around the Morpeth area but timetables didn't reflect that change. All other timetable sources still indicate the timetable is as it was from November 2017.