(21 May 2023, 3:32 pm)L469 YVK wrote The original 307 only ran a 'limited' service tbh, the 51 has been the most stable service through Wiltshire Drive and the 51A did used to go up Station Road, before the 51/51A were interworked with the 46/46A.
The 307 would work well through Wiltshire Drive and likewise although a slightly longer journey, Hadrian Park would get a better service from the 22 including more links smack bang into Newcastle (rather than walking from Haymarket) and later last buses judging by the current 22 timetable.
Hadrian Park is a pain to serve mid-route with it being one way in - one way out. Wiltshire Drive is much easier with different ways in and out.
Commercially, GNE would benefit from an evening PVR reduction and unless Stagecoach dropped Cobalt & Silverlink, would reduce the risk of Stagecoach enroaching the Whitley Bay - Howdon section of GNE's 1.
See personally, I'd be tempted to do this with the 51:
50 - Newcastle to Backworth (Hourly) - https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Newcastl...77!1m0!3e0
51 - Newcastle to Whitley Bay (Hourly) - https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Newcastl...5b!1m0!3e0
19 - North Shields to Cramlington via Seaton Delaval (Hourly) - Current route bar serving main road rather than estate in Backworth
20 - North Shields to Cramlington via Killingworth (Hourly) - https://www.google.com/maps/dir/55.08424...c0!1m0!3e0
53 - Curtailed at Killingworth
54 - Withdrawn
The 54, is the basket case bus route, you'd be better pushing that traffic towards the 51 corridor and the quicker route to Newcastle rather than a magical mystery tour of the North East. There's no lost links as North Shields to Cramlington is covered on the 19/20 every 30 minutes, Cobalt to Killingworth is covered on the quicker 20 and Shiremoor to Whitley Bay is covered by the 51.
There's also numerous buses between Gosforth and Newcastle and Whitley Bay and Cobalt.