(24 May 2021, 12:38 pm)OrangeArrow49 wrote Ah, thanks for that.

Shame they won't  bring that particular 434 back, or a similar route. Hopefully the 19 will continue to exist (I doubt it will) to serve Ashington.

I've got the 19 a few times and it's always been fairly busy with local passengers, particularly those travelling between the shops at Cramlington and points north (since there's only one Arriva bus per hour heading from Cramlington in that direction). It does seem to play a fairly useful role in filling in various gaps that Arriva serve poorly.

Whether that's enough to guarantee its continued existence is another question. After all, office working appears to have changed permanently, and traffic to/from Cobalt is likely to be much lower than in the past - that might also affect the service if they're partially funding it. My gut says it'll just about hang on unless Arriva up the frequency of the 57, but I wouldn't want to predict either way.