(26 Apr 2021, 5:51 pm)L469 YVK wrote But there wouldn't be any 'major' cuts as such for Northumberland. The number of Ashington - Newcastle services would only drop by 1x journey per hour.
The whole point of demonstrating the Derwentside 'X' services was to show how services eventually replaced each other.
That would be to a lesser extent for the Ashington network.
In terms of journeys to and from Newcastle, the timings would actually work out well for the most part:
ex Ashington: xx:10 (X21), xx:17 (X19), xx:25 (X22), xx:40 (X21), xx:47 (X20), xx:55 (X22)
ex Newcastle: xx:00 (X21*), xx:08 (X19), xx:15 (X22), xx:30 (X21), xx:38 (X20), xx:45 (X22)
* = Terminates at Ashington
The problem is I'm not sure there's actually that many travelling throughout. 1800 is on the X20 today just to put it into context on how dead it is lately and it's been allocated since first thing aswell.
Ashington is having an absolute nightmare today though tbf so the extra 1 PVR would've been a cancellation today. 1801 being on the X21/X22/35 board aswell and not a clue what's going on with the X15 but there's missing runs and 7484 appears to be on now running 20 minutes late (off to Berwick unless it's swapped) which was meant to be going onto toto the 57 which seems to have gaps because 2809 has broke down (again).