Well I’m not surprised the Peterlee depot is going, although I always thought they could have utilised it more. At one time you could have some X9/X10 duties from Peterlee - a good halfway point on the route - and the 55 too, reducing light running, maybe even the 60/61 routes too.

When Peterlee got the 65, it seemed to be more a case of mitigating the loss of the 62/X6 cycle to Deptford really. As otherwise Peterlee is left with just the 201, 206, 209/210 and 62A. Which would have been a big PVR decrease for the depot. And whilst yes the 65 route is probably closer to Peterlee than Deptford or Chester-le-Street, I don’t think it’s huge difference depending on where changeovers happen at and of course the route has existed for many years when there wasn’t a depot on route.

But I believe the majority of Peterlee’s routes are DCC contracted? So I do wonder if GNE plan on getting rid of some of these contracts? I can’t see how it’s feasible to run the 209/210 from anywhere else? Driver changeovers, and the circular route doesn’t lend itself to merged into other services and it’s a pretty limited timetable as it is now anyway. 206 could went back into the 55 route but I can’t see the 55 lasting either. Perhaps the 201 survives via some of extension to the X6? Nice direct worker links from Seaham too.

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(09 Mar 2022, 10:13 am)F114TML wrote Oh yes. Closed in the 80s. Tbf at the time there were quite a few routes in Murton and Seaham, which lasted until even the mid-2000s I think, then they were merged into the 60 and 61 (and dad still refuses to believe the 152 doesn't run any more).

Where was the Murton depot at exactly? I wasn’t around in the 80s!