(29 Oct 2020, 8:10 pm)RobinHood wrote Sometimes situations like this come about as buses are aligned into frequencies elsewhere along the route.

Back when Arriva operated the 81 to Stokesley, it ran 5 minutes ahead of the 28A, with nothing for 55 minutes towards Great Ayton.

When I queried it, they told me that the times of the 28A we're fixed by the times it operates back into Middlesbrough to fit a headway there with Service 28/29. The 81 was timed to run opposite the 28 around West Guisborough, and because of this, the fallout was the 81 and 28A ran together when they met at Great Ayton.

It's not ideal, but it made sense when it was explained.

It’s still the same now with our 18 leaving Stokesley at xx45 (in the hours it runs), with the 28A leaving at xx46. Its limited by the connections with the 81 in Guisborough which it is timed to meet.