(06 Jun 2020, 10:39 am)cbma06 wrote Originally the Hartlepool to Houghton section used to be the old 231 then 21A which used to carry on to Chester then Newcastle, but when Chester streamlined there services into the 21 sequences, the houghton to Hartlepool section fell into the hands of Deptford and there extended the service to Sunderland limited stop then GNE screwed the service up with all different incarnations of the serviceBack in the mid 1980, the 230 also existed, which was operated by Northern General and United. I guess the 23 is the successor service to the 230. During the Arriva train strikes, I had to use the 23, or a combo of the 22 and 24. Thank the train god that the trains returned!
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