(03 Jun 2023, 9:12 pm)ASX_Terranova wrote Is this the same 217 than ran from Sunderland to Ferryhill via Houghton operated by scarlet band at one point?Doing that your kind of looking at end point to end point customers... who will use the train which will inevitably be quicker reagardless of how express the express bus is. It would need to go round at least some of the houses to stand any chance. Maybe through Shildon, Newton Aycliffe and Sedgefield.
Would that be faster than sending a bus alongside the A689 and A19.
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