(05 Sep 2023, 2:21 pm)RobinHood wrote The new evening journeys are contracted by Northumberland County Council and the southern end of the 57A is contracted by Nexus.
Unfortunately you would need them to work together for that to happen, but alas.
Aye it's a shame they can't work together, on paper imo it would be better to have an hourly 19 running from North Shields to Cramlington and an hourly 57A running from Bedlington through to Whitley Bay, it's the same PVR as what's used now (4). Much much better use of resources and serve places that don't have a bus service (Backworth Estates, East Cramlington, Nelson Ind. Estate, Nelson Village, Cramlington Hospital). Complete waste the current bizarre 57A evening / Sunday service and the 19 being 2 BPH carrying dust around.
Could then potentially make an argument for running the 351 and 359 until late and binning off the 54 evening boards, again serving places with no evening service like Murton, Briardene etc.