(12 Jan 2019, 8:01 pm)S830OFT wrote Well some Nighters won't get home tonight with Arriva and Northern on strike. This afternoon was chaos with no Arriva staff around and all the questions going to the Security Guard who knows quite a lot tbh.
If it's the sturdy guy, he's a canny feller. Not seen him for a bit, mind, but now my local bus is the 64, rather than the 22, and I live in walking distance, anyhow, I don't spend a lot of time in the bus station any more.
(12 Jan 2019, 9:26 pm)S830OFT wrote Not everyone is loaded with cash you know!
No Bus Service in Newton Aycliffe No Trains after 18:00, people from Durham getting there would falk out a fortune. I think it's outrageous that Arriva Durham chose to run 4 routes but they were the shortest of routes...
Examples of places cut off because of Arriva's decision:
Sedgefield: Only the hourly 113 Scarlet Band to Ferryhill and Bishop.
Ferryhill: Only the hourly 113 Scarlet Band to Sedgefield and Bishop.
Bishop Auckland: Only Weardale, Scarlet Band, Go North East and a very infrequent Northern Trains service.
Newton Aycliffe: Only Northern Trains operating until 18:00.
Darlington: Mainly Trains with Scarlet Band 16 running aswell as Dales/District 29/34/72.
Scarlet Band must have made a big profit this week from having to pick up the pieces, I seen the 52 leaving to Esh Winning with a full load, also seen the 58 coming into Coxhoe with standing room only.
Back when the 22 was hourly, I had an afternoon hospital appointment. The 22 that would have got me home in time to pick the boys up was a no show, even after half an hour, so I had no choice but to run to the taxi rank. He rounded it down to £15 to Thornley and this would have been 6 or 7 years ago.
Though no one from Thornley would have been stranded on Saturday night, if they couldn't get in, in the first place. The 58 runs fairly late, anyhow.