(17 Dec 2022, 8:33 pm)Storx wrote Not really the 6 is every 15 minutes and runs on evenings in a Arriva area whereas the X21 is every 30 minutes and doesn't.

The X21 should avoid Durham if it was about duplication like it used to then it would be more useful. If tickets were intermodal then no-one loses out.

Peterlee and West Seaham are both heavy Arriva though, there's always going to be some duplication.

On paper though the best routes would be imo:

X21: Sunderland - Limited Stop - Seaham - Limited Stop - Peterlee - Current Route - Darlington (Hourly)
X22: Sunderland - Limited Stop - Seaham - Limited Stop - Peterlee - Current Route - Middlesbrough (Hourly)
X6: Withdrawn, replaced by X21/X22
22: Sunderland - East Lea / West Lea - Murton - South Hetton - Peterlee - Current Route - Durham (Every 30 Minutes)
23: Current Route (Every 30 Minutes)
60 -> Renumbered 21 (Every 15 Minutes)
61: Withdrawn, replaced by 22

21/22/23 - Every 7.5 Minutes, Sunderland to East/West Lea
X21/X22 - Every 30 Minutes

Obviously a problem when you have 2 operators though. The PVR should be the same / slightly less than now aswell.

Well Arriva are pulling out of Sunderland and Seaham, with reduced services to Sunderland on Saturdays and Sundays. X21 was pulled out too. 

I feel like Peterlee is a massive issue, arguable GNE should run the 22 between Sunderland & Durham, and 23 between Sunderland & Peterlee & 24 between Peterlee & Durham. And then you could extend the X6 to Middlesbrough which would become a better connection to the X10 too. 

And 6 at every 15 mins is better however on X21 offers a better connection to Newcastle and if it was every 15 mins it would be better, same with the 21, if that was every 15 mins to Brandon it would be better, and a much better option via 49/49A. 

Personally I would do 

X5 - Sunderland - Peterlee - Hartlepool (every 60 mins) Old 55 Way
X5A - Sunderland - Peterlee - Hartlepool (23 way every 60 mins)
X6 - Sunderland - Seaham - Dalton Park - Peterlee - Middlesbrough (every 60 mins)
X7 - Sunderland - Seaham - Dalton Park - Peterlee - Wingate - Bowburn - Durham (every 60 mins)
X8 - Newcastle - Durham - Bowburn - Darlington (Every 30 mins) 
60 - Sunderland - Parkside (every 12 mins)
61 - Sunderland - Dalton Park - Murton - South Hetton - Peterlee (every 30 mins) - Darlington (hourly)
62 - Sunderland - Seaham - Dalton Park - Hawthorn - Easington - Peterlee (every 30 mins)
63 - Peterlee - Shotton - Sherburn - Durham - Arnison Centre(every 60 mins)
65 - Seaham - Dalton Park - Hetton-Le-Hole - Durham (every 30 mins)
64/64A - (209/210 route)