(18 May 2022, 8:23 pm)Storx wrote See for your 21/22 I'd do what I was talking about in the other thread but route wise I'd say
21 - Current Route (Every 30 Minutes)
22 - Newcastle - Low Fell - Harlow Green - Birtley - Chester Le Street - 25 Route to Langley Park (Every 30 Minutes)
23 - Newcastle - Low Fell - Harlow Green - Birtley - 82 Route to Washington (Every 30 Minutes)
24 - Newcastle - Low Fell - Harlow Green - Birtley - Ouston - Pelton - Beamish - Stanley (Every 30 Minutes)
25 - Newcastle - Low Fell - Harlow Green - Wrekenton (Hourly)
26 - Newcastle - Low Fell - Harlow Green - Kibblesworth (Hourly)
Which would result in the following frequencies
Newcastle - Harlow Green, Every 7.5 Minutes with the 25 and 26 running in front of the Durham boards giving 10 buses an hour.
Newcastle - Birtley - Every 7.5 Minutes
Newcastle - Chester Le Street - Every 15 Minutes
You've pretty restored everything that was lost with loss of the 25, 28/28A, 29 and 82 which was worthwhile with lots of new links such as Rickleton to Newcastle, Stanley to Birtley, Ouston and Low Fell, Low Fell to Washington, Quicker service for Ouston and Langley Park etc.
With that 24 link you've pretty much brought back the old 709/728 routes.
I do think these suggestions are sensible but I think whats more likely is the Nexus tinker the 23 to serve more of Birtley.
There probably is some legs in extending the 34 out of Ouston and along Greenford Lane into Kibblesworth and looping into Birtley to at least give links to a 21/X12/23