(19 Jan 2023, 5:30 pm)Unber43 wrote They should extend the 71 to Sunderland, I mean they might as well, change overs have to go that way. Aswell the X6 gets rammed so it would be nice to have a service at every 30 mins between Seaham & Sunderland express wise.

I wonder if something could be done to change the 71 to include the lost links by the 62
Or atleast run it commercially to Sunderland from the current route, as they need it as a PVR 3 for changeovers and the extension to Sunderland takes the X6 around 15 mins so why not.

Considering the major lost link is Seaham Harbour/Dawdon to Peterlee via Easington, I think that's not going to be very productive - it'd just be the 203 but extended to Chester-le-Street, especially given what you said above, so prob best as a new route entirely if they fancied (which they clearly don't)