(12 Mar 2021, 2:56 pm)col87 wrote A few ideas to improve the Hartlepool and Teesside networks.
Teesside
The 15 extended to North Tees Hospital and all services extending to Ingleby Berwick via Thornaby.
Some services will be renumbered to 16 and will operate North Tees Hospital - Yarm via Preston Park replacing the service 7. Both will continue to be a regular high frequency service.
17 Will be extended to Stockton via Thornaby replacing the existing 17 and 17A services.
21 Middlesbrough - Yarm - Teesside Airport - Darlington.
This will run in conjunction with the X66 and X67 providing a direct service between Middlesbrough Yarm and Teesside Airport.
X 12 X13
All X12 Journeys will now Terminate at Durham.
New Service X13 will take over some of the X12 route and will operate Middlesbrough - Stockton- Billingham then Direct to Chester Le Street - The Angel of the North - Gateshead and Newcastle.
63 will continue as now but will now serve Kirkleatheam village.
X4 Will no longer continue to Whitby and instead will terminate at Lofus.
New Service 67 will operate A new Whitby - Redcar service.
Some X93 Journeys will re numbered X95 and will operate non stop between Whitby and Scarborough and Continue to Bridlington via most of the Holiday Parks. This will be 2 journeys each way
on a morning and afternoon.
Most other services to remain unchanged.
Hartlepool.
23 and 24 to be unchanged.
New service 25 will operate between Hartlepool and Peterlee via Hart Station and Castle Eden.
57 57A remain unchanged.
New service X23 will operate as a limited express service between Hartlepool and Sunderland via Peterlee Easington and Doxford International.
A few ideas to improve the Hartlepool and Teesside networks.
Teesside
The 15 extended to North Tees Hospital and all services extending to Ingleby Berwick via Thornaby.
Some services will be renumbered to 16 and will operate North Tees Hospital - Yarm via Preston Park replacing the service 7. Both will continue to be a regular high frequency service.
17 Will be extended to Stockton via Thornaby replacing the existing 17 and 17A services.
21 Middlesbrough - Yarm - Teesside Airport - Darlington.
This will run in conjunction with the X66 and X67 providing a direct service between Middlesbrough Yarm and Teesside Airport.
X 12 X13
All X12 Journeys will now Terminate at Durham.
New Service X13 will take over some of the X12 route and will operate Middlesbrough - Stockton- Billingham then Direct to Chester Le Street - The Angel of the North - Gateshead and Newcastle.
63 will continue as now but will now serve Kirkleatheam village.
X4 Will no longer continue to Whitby and instead will terminate at Lofus.
New Service 67 will operate A new Whitby - Redcar service.
Some X93 Journeys will re numbered X95 and will operate non stop between Whitby and Scarborough and Continue to Bridlington via most of the Holiday Parks. This will be 2 journeys each way
on a morning and afternoon.
Most other services to remain unchanged.
Hartlepool.
23 and 24 to be unchanged.
New service 25 will operate between Hartlepool and Peterlee via Hart Station and Castle Eden.
57 57A remain unchanged.
New service X23 will operate as a limited express service between Hartlepool and Sunderland via Peterlee Easington and Doxford International.
Don't agree with the X12/X13 changes. The X12 is about giving people outside Durham a connection to Newcastle using their Arriva tickets and also Sedgefield and Coxhoe direct buses and also the same the other way from Blyth / Gosforth / Ashington to Durham. It's not about Stockton / Middlesbrough to Newcastle and Arriva doesn't serve Billingham so it makes no sense going there.
It also gives Durham University a direct bus to Newcastle and links from multiple places to Durham College and the hospital without the change.
That said though I do think you could do some form of X13 like:
Durham - Durham University - East Durham College - NON STOP - Amazon Durham - NON STOP - Sedgefield (Limited Stops) - NON STOP - Tesco Stockton - Limited Stops - Stockton - Portrack Lane - Newport Bridge - NON STOP - Middlesbrough
To give a quicker service between Durham and Teesside as it's very slow atm and also a service north to Portrack Lane where there's shops and work places and a bus to Amazon Durham as there's none atm.
Can't really comment on the rest as I don't know them.