(09 Jan 2024, 11:10 pm)James101 wrote Spacing between departures from Durham to Sunderland isn’t great. X20 just 3 minute after a 20 and sharing the same stand. It won’t be helpful for X20 loadings as this effectively narrows the time saving down to 5 minutes to Houghton.
It’s impossible to get an equal co-ordination between the 20/X20 in both directions and across the entire route (by virtue of one being faster than the other…)
The biggest flow of passengers is Sunderland and East Herrington to Houghton-le-Spring, where you will note co-ordination between the two services is much better in both directions (aiming towards a bus being every 7-8 minutes on the common section).
It’s one of those situations where the service is trying to achieve more than one thing, and there’s limitations to how it can do everything.
Towards Durham is much better.
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