(29 Jun 2021, 10:56 pm)Micheal Aaron wrote Would be nice to update the fleet though. Coaches would be good for the 685. Don't understand why they need Pulsar on. Unless it's because it ain't popular enough for coaches to run

The one issue with putting coaches on the 685 is the stopping pattern. A route like the X9 or X10 has a fairly short list of potential stops, but the 685 has 117 stops along its length. There's also the issue that generally the X9 or X10 only stops once in each area it serves, whereas the 685 is just a standard stopping service for most of its route.

A coach could work for an express "X85" service (X85 in quote marks because it'd have to be called something else like the X69). But I'm not convinced there's demand for such a service - the 685 deals with a lot of overlapping flows but relatively few people are on it for longer journeys.