(06 Mar 2021, 3:30 pm)Rapidsnap wrote It won't be a frequent service, it be one or two journeys each way departing Newcastle between 8am and 10am with the return leaving Scarborough between 4pm and 6pm. The vehicles will probably park up in the EYMS yard next to Scarborough Station between runs. I very much doubt there be much demand for a service running from Scarborough to Newcastle in the morning and back in the evening. As if people in Scarborough want to go to a City, they prob use a train or Yorkshire Coastliner service and go to York.
Agreed. I think it'll very much be along the lines of what ANE had with the X60. That it starts on a Saturday in April could be a coincidence, but to me you wouldn't start a commuter service on a Saturday (don't most service changes start on a Sun/Mon?). Of course it's also the first Saturday after shops are planned to reopen. Realistically if there was demand for a commuter service I'd have thought that ANE would have picked up on it with any X93/X12 through passengers.
It's why I also think it'll be decker operated and not with coaching stock as mentioned earlier up, I cannot see them limiting passenger numbers to 50 or so - they'll be wanting full decker loads of 70+. I hope it works out for them, it'll be good to see the return of these sorts of routes.