(20 Nov 2025, 7:43 pm)Arriva7446 wrote I think the main USP of the 19 is the direct link to Cobalt from parts of Cramlington and Seaton Deleval / Seghill, which is not covered by the X7 or 57 services. I think that is a useful direct link, but I absolutely do agree there is some other links which could probably be more useful for more people, like as you say to Killingworth and Seaton Sluice / New Hartley to Cramlington. If they tried a link from Deleval / Seghill to Killingworth and timed it well, that could work as a connection for those Cobalt users, maybe keeping the direct service in morning and afternoon peak, but something else other times. I would be open to see these new changes and new suggestions that you say.

I also agree a lot of the current non Cobalt users would be on the 57A otherwise, just whichever turns up first and as you say, that is not really the purpose of a subsidised route. Agreed also on the North shields end.

So overall I think the Cobalt direct link is the main advantage of this route, without having to change buses in Whitley bay to the 309, but I am sure there could be things done in better ways for more people and I would be open to that being consulted on.

Yeah can't disagree, truthfully - if they're keeping things the way they are I'd rather they just turned it into a decent works service and extend it North from Cramlington so more people have access to Cobalt like the old 318 did before GoNorthEast bought over Northumbria Coaches.

The 2 buses then could be used elsewhere, and create something actually useful. 3 if you want to do something with the 58 as that route is a joke of a route aswell with the Killingworth to North Shields route staying since something needs to work with the 335, hourly is more than enough for that corridor as they're pretty quiet most the time.

What you do with the 2/3 buses, I'm sure everyone can come with all sorts of ideas and missing links you could create which actually are useful and if Nexus/Northumberland Council actually consulted with residents I'm sure they'd find out aswell, rather than subsidising the same failing services over and over again.

The 335/342/W1/W2, arguably are routes which fits this aswell, as they're questionable whether they should exist at all (W2) or just take dog leg routes. There's quite a few buses there which if you sat down, believe the PVR is like 11 (including the 19 and 58), and actually had a think you could do something actually decent with.