(23 Aug 2023, 5:51 pm)Storx wrote Ngl, if you were doing Consett night buses, it should be a unique route.

Something like:

So they you get Blaydon and Winlaton with it at the same time, there's no point serving express parts as it's just missing people.

Similar with the X1, I'd be tempted to combine it with the 56, so it's every 30 minutes to Concord, then split off on the 4 route down to Houghton. No point for an express service skipping Sheriff Hill at that time of night. I know Concord is a drinking spot, same with Fatfield which it would both serve.

The thing is, what I've learned from the 56 night bus, it isn't so much a bus for getting drinkers home. It's a bus for work people more than anything, I'd say a good 70% of the passengers are people going home from work (or even to work). Yes a lot of the workers are from bars, but they're mainly from Newcastle or Sunderland, as well as shift workers from Nissan and it's suppliers, going home to Gateshead, Washington, Sunderland and Newcastle. I think a night bus network needs to realise this to work at all, just look at the N21 after all, apparently that can only survive on a weekend commercially.