(11 Aug 2024, 8:58 pm)PH - BQA wrote I'm relatively surprised this wasn't included in the September X16 changes. 

Since Morpeth to Longframlington is a sector, and a round trip on that would be doable in the 43 mins you'd have available between Newcastle to Morpeth stints, you could significantly improve the service to Northgate, Longhorsley, and Longframlington as well as the Morpeth to Newcastle corridor. It would need 2 buses anyway, may as well use them rather than having them sitting around for three quarters of an hour.

I know it's more buses but personally I'd look at X15 changes personally.

Have the buses as something like

17:53 -> Alnwick
18:58 -> Berwick
19:58 -> Alnwick
20:58 -> Alnwick
21:58 -> Alnwick

06:25, Belford to Newcastle (extend 6.52 service)
21:25, Berwick to Morpeth

Would open new links and mean people who live in Belford can actually get to work / education, if they wanted to.

Means you'd have a 30 minute service to Morpeth until 22:28.

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For other Northumberland changes run both the 57/57A in an evening with the stupid Whitley Bay to North Shields routing binned off. Stakeford, Nelson Ind Estate and East Cramlington currently have no bus service at all.

Mind if Arriva, Nexus and NCC could work together something like this would be better imo:


As:

19: Withdrawn
57: Ashington - Stakeford - Bedlington - Nelson Ind Estate - Cramlington - East Cramlington Hospital - Seaton Delaval - Earsdon - Whitley Bay
57A: Ashington - Stakeford - Bedlington - Nelson Ind Estate - Cramlington - Annitsford - Seghill - Seaton Delaval - Earsdon - Whitley Bay
58: Ashington - Bedlington Station - Cramlington - East Cramlington Hospital - New Hartley - Seaton Delaval - Seghill - Backworth - Cobalt - North Shields

57/57A - PVR 5 (Every 30 Minutes Combined)
58 - PVR 3 (Every hour, shorts scrapped)

Evenings / Sundays
57A/58 Run

It would open loads of new links and pretty much ensure that every street in SE Northumberland would have a bus service (ignoring 434 stops) which are currently missing atm, East Cramlington etc. Whether there's a short 58(19) still, is upto Nexus.