(12 Dec 2020, 12:23 am)streetdeckfan wrote Have I missed something?

(12 Dec 2020, 1:05 am)Storx wrote It also doesn't make sense though to send buses to Oxford as surplus when they actually needed the deckers for the service. There's always been deckers for some runs for the X45/X46/X47 but it doesn't mean that all of them need to be deckers in the same way as the X7/X8/X9 don't at Blyth. As long as you have deckers on the runs ie the ones that's run into town at the morning rush hour and the ones out in the evening then the ones inbetween probably don't warrant them. A 15 minute decker service through mostly villages is overkill imo.

The 8:02, 8:25, 8:36 runs out of Consett could all easily be ran by singles. As if doing quick maths and using a 1 hour 10 minute run for each bus, they should be one of the 4 runs between 17:22 to 17:55 runs towards Newcastle so they've missed the Newcastle peak out aswell. It's how the Blyth buses works and it makes sense.

There's the equivelant X7/X8/X9 run for the 8:02, https://bustimes.org/vehicles/189800?date=2020-12-11
There's the one for what would be the 8:25, https://bustimes.org/vehicles/189597?date=2020-12-09
Then there's the third one: https://bustimes.org/vehicles/190086?date=2020-12-09

They all miss both peaks and I don't believe there's any school runs which can mess things up either.