(10 Sep 2021, 9:50 pm)ASX_Terranova wrote X60: BIshop Auckland to Hartlepool via Coundon, Chilton, Bradbury, Sedgefield, Wynyard, Wolviston & Rift House.
Could be Branded as The A689 Flyer.
Can't see the demand being there tbh, there have previously been services from Bishop Auckland to Stockton and Bishop Auckland to Sedgefield for example which haven't survived. Also think you'd need something a bit catchier than A689 Flyer - not that Arriva really do branding apart from Max, Sapphire etc so wouldn't happen anyway - but there's hardly much to be celebrated about an A-road.
I love that your suggestions hark back to services of yesteryear but I don't think they'd be realistic in the present!