(15 Oct 2020, 2:56 pm)Storx wrote Just had a look as I was curious. Seems that the 44 Whitley Bay to Newcastle was replaced by the X8/X9 but they also replaced the 307, 337 and 335 at the same time so it seems the drivers and buses have come from there and it was subsidised by Cobalt at first.

http://www.travelnortheast.co.uk/news/st...eview.html

Can't find any timetables but they seem to be both hourly aswell? but I could be wrong.

Sorry to the admins, this is going so off topic (being old services and Arriva based) but to dig further with useful / useless info 

X8 / X9 Timetables
https://web.archive.org/web/201112242120...x?id=10575

Nexus 2011 map showing X8 / X9, don't think the route had changed up to that point
https://web.archive.org/web/201604050716...%20Pro.pdf

Nexus 2008 Map Showing 44
https://web.archive.org/web/200812210931...0guide.pdf

Basically the 44 used to go Non-stop St Marys Place to Willington Square then all stops Norham Road North to Whitley Bay. 
The X9 ran non stop from Sandyford Road / Portland Terrace to High Farm Coast Road / Station Road before working the 337 route to the south end of the Cobalt, doing its own route through the Cobalt before picking up the 44 route in New York

1 thing doing this research has made me remember how superior the old North Tyneside network used to be Pre-Cobalt