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Trivia: Unbalanced services in one direction

Trivia: Unbalanced services in one direction

RE: Trivia: Unbalanced services in one direction
(28 Oct 2020, 10:09 am)Storx wrote This got me thinking and I seen a similar thread on a different forum and it was interesting some of the results which come up. Basically the question is about where there's multiple services using a specific corridor which are really uneven resulting in massive gaps between services.

To give an example in Holywell there are 2 services in an evening heading towards Cramlington however one is at xx:25 and the other xx:28 which means there's a service 3 minutes, then 57 minutes which is probably unbeatable for 2 buses an hour between 2 points.

Is there any others about? I believe Low Fell has a bit of a problem in an evening with 3 or so services then nothing for 20 minutes and what's the highest gap which exists in a day time service where there's more than 1 bus an hour? Operators are irrelavant for this so you can't do it only Arriva when there's a GNE service inbetween doing the same route etc.
The section of Durham Road between East Herrington and The Prospect Lidl (pre-COVID) had 4 buses an hour in the evening and towards Sunderland, it was xx:12 (4 - SNE), xx:16 (20 - GNE), then 26 minutes for the next one! Not as extreme as your example in Holyhead but still an uneven service considering there are 16 buses an hour during the day.

Trivia: Unbalanced services in one direction
RE: Trivia: Unbalanced services in one direction
Trivia: Unbalanced services in one direction