(09 Mar 2022, 11:08 am)peter wrote With all this talk about depots changing I do think there really could be a chance GNE will look at offloading Chester le Street and having a new build at Durham which can support electric charging. Especially if they won the P&R contract and the ZEBRA bid, it could house the P&R, 21, X5/X15, Cathedral Bus and Chester Town services, as well as the likes of the X21, X22, 25, 65. The 8 could go to Consett, Washington or Sunderland, then maybe the 34 go to Washington, the 28 to Consett and the 71 to Durham.
As for Peterlee, I wonder if the 62A might be slotted into the 62/X6 interworking as it arrives/departs Peterlee at the same time as the X6. Similarly I do wonder with the 55 whether one journey might terminate at Hetton le Hole following the extension of the X1, with the other bus continuing through to Peterlee and re-extended to Wingate to replace the 206. Then there's only the 201/209/210 left operating as town services.
This was dismissed in the press: https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/1...pot-close/