(16 Jun 2023, 4:43 pm)Countydurhambuses wrote I'm surprised there isn't just a short bishop to west Auckland loop, most people from west Auckland seem to get off in bishop anyway

Think the main reason many of the services in and around Bishop Auckland are the way they are is due to neither of ANE and GNE having bases in or even near Bishop Auckland anymore, 6 & X21 certainly with them operating from Belmont and Riverside for the X21, granted Arriva has a depot in Darlington but only way you could really make anything work would be tagging a load of services into the interworking pattern with service 5, I imagine there is certainly some through traffic beyond Bishop Auckland Town Centre so probs about the best form they realistically could be.