(06 Apr 2025, 10:35 am)BusEnthusiast.com wrote Unrelated and I can’t remember if I asked this before but why not GNE do an experiment with double door usage as it seems quite useful and the door is just sitting there.Like maybe for 1 day they just test out to see whether dual door operation could help

They did, with the pink Angels and it was a disaster. 

Money was spent updating bus stops in low fell and Birtley. 

Nobody used the middle doors, they couldn’t be used at Durham or Newcastle terminus (even when the 21 at the time served pilgrim st) and the buses disappeared fairly sharpish