(06 Apr 2021, 10:31 am)col87 wrote Would be nice if they could be bothered to try new services from Hartlepool to places although anything past Peterlee they don’t care about. Let’s be honest the X9/X10 is just a service to get people to Newcastle but other than that they don’t care. It’s not exactly Go North East when they can’t be bothered with a good part of it. The X21 only got extended in Bishop to serve them the bother of doing regular local services there. Darlington and Hartlepool don’t seem to exist to them. They could have tried services from them places but no just do more services from Newcastle instead. A similar X11 service could have been done from Hartlepool for example.
I don't know why it's a case of Go North East not being bothered, when arguably Arriva and Stagecoach are the principle operators in that area and could quite easily take some commercial risk in creating/trying new links.