(16 Aug 2023, 7:46 pm)Storx wrote imo they should still have shorts serving Washington. Maybe something like

X1: Same as current, Every 15 Minutes
X2: Newcastle - Washington - 2A route to Penshaw and loop, Every 30 Minutes
X3: Newcastle - Washington - 50 route to Rickleton and loop, Every 30 Minutes
X1/X2/X3: Every 7.5 Minutes, Newcastle to Washington (try and grow this)

2: Same as current, Every 30 Minutes 
2A: Same route from Silksworth to Sunderland, 39a/b route to Pennywell
39A/B: Terminate in Sunderland
50: Omit Rickleton and Ayton Road and speed journeys up.

There's barely any lost links, but connects Washington to a place arguably most people actually want to go without a change. The 2A doesn't cover anything unique as it's already covered by 8 bar Chester Road but can't imagine there's 100's of people wanting that journey.

Every 30 mins to Washington from Sunderland?!

I would just extend the X2 to Sunderland as an express, maybe even to Seaham depending on layover time, the only issue with it going to Seaham is that the low bridge along the sea front but I suppose it could follow the X6 route untill the roundabout at the start of the B1287 then it could serve the new estate which is being built, then along to Station Road then into Seaham