(23 May 2021, 8:06 pm)OrangeArrow49 wrote Yeah, Nexus are just a nightmare with their short contracts. Northumberland contracts are much longer. Is the Alnwick - Thropton service you're thinking of the Phoenix Coaches 15?  It's good most services are commercially viable.

434 doesn't seem like a good service for me to use. 

Phoenix Coaches are good and should introduce more services.

Seriously expect GCT will get (and ruin) the 33/33A next March. GNE will almost certainly lose it. Q3 will always be there hopefully, but shame about the 33/A, it'd a good service I haven't used much.

Yeah that's the one the 15, used to be ran by the independent Spirit Buses before it got messed up by the X14 changing timetables and messing up connections. 

Tbf though we've got similar problems with Rural Link or whatever name it wants to call itself this week who never run services and nothing is ever done. Believe they got some of the Hexham contracts recently aswell. It's even more of a grim bus company than GCT. Least they have buses which are fit for the road.

Phoenix used to run a few services in Nexus land but haven't got anything recently. Sure they had the 19 at one point. Veolia were the best tho imo shame they shut down though. That's a while ago now though.