(21 Mar 2022, 8:49 pm)Storx wrote It's impossible to have the X30 run standalone, it's an hourly service which takes 40 minutes end to end (roughly). Unless you want buses sitting around doing nothing every run for 20 minutes there's no way you can timetable it sensibly.They could split the X30/X31 & X70/X71/X72 but still interwork the X30/X31 with each other if that kinda makes sense at least during the day with relief at Stanley? Would certainly help with reliability and also help with spares on the basis that a spare 'full height' decker could be allocated on the X70/X71/X72 if needed. Obviously the X70/X71/X72 would still interwork with each other and some relief at Stanley depending where the rotas and shifts fall (i.e CON - NCL - CON - NCL - STY then STY- NCL- CON - NCL - CON , that would fall within legal driving limits).
But running the X30 standalone during the evenings and on Sundays however would be commercial suicide.