(02 Oct 2022, 4:25 pm)L469 YVK wrote In a lot of instances, moving the last departutres to between 11:20 and 11:30 would work well.
If Arriva did however re-introduce a 30 minute Monday to Saturday evening service on the 306 & 308 (every 15 mins combined), I'd say the best laat departures would be:
306 - 22:42 - Sundays
308 - 22:42 - Monday to Saturday
306 - 22:57 - Monday to Saturday
308 - 23:12 - Daily
306 - 23:32 - Daily
308 - 23:52 - *Friday & Saturday only*
Note the last 308 on a Fri & Sat would work off the 44 (23:15 ex Dinnington)
Aye disagree too much really bar the 44 is going to Ashington I believe rather than Blyth or it was in the early rumours so ideally that would have to go onto an X21/X22 instead which probably wouldn't be too bad to have a later service either.
Mind I'd be tempted to say flip the 306/308 around so you have the 23:32, 308 and then have the later 306 on a Saturday maybe extended to Whitley Bay / Blyth to try and pick up a few punters from Tynemouth heading home. It would give an option home beyond midnight, the last Metro being 23:55 and 1 23:19
I do believe there's a 52 and 54 which come in as late though.