(23 May 2021, 11:33 pm)omnicity4659 wrote 1 runs between Ashington and Blyth - an Arriva service.

434 doesn't serve Blyth because it was cut back to provide a more frequent service for those in Cambois and North Blyth, the only places it was intended to benefit. When the 30 and 34 merged it became Linton to Bedlington Station, with a frequency reduction so it used one bus instead of the previous two from Arriva/Phoenix.

The main purpose of the 434 is to connect the four villages of Linton, Cambois, North Blyth and West Sleekburn to amenities in Ashington. It's not really for end-to-end journeys.

Of course. So I suppose GNE wouldn't introduce a service.

I see the 434 used to serve Haymarket, Regent Centre/Gosforth and then Wideopen and Seaton Burn to Bedlington, Stakeford and North Seaton, back in 1996. A shame we don't have a service like that anymore, from Regent Centre to Wideopen and Seaton Burn to somewhere like Blyth or something.

Yeah, I was only going to use the 434 Blyth to Ashington, but it doesn't serve Blyth. Disappointing.