(26 Dec 2025, 9:56 pm)Jimmi wrote The provision the last few years has dropped a fair bit from what was provided in 2019 which is what I last properly remember, back then we had multiple buses running throughout County Durham including the 16A, 20, 21/X21 to Bishop Auckland, last few year's been next to nothing, pretty much just the last few stops into Chester-le-Street on the 21.

Loadings I've seen have been mixed, although I wasn't paying too much attention, busiest seemed to be the services operated by their usual operators (GNE/SNE), the few X66's I saw leaving Gateshead were pretty rammed.

Durham County Council didn't actually open up Stanley Bus Station today despite Northstar serving there on the M43, instead having to drop passengers as the bus entered the bus station.

That was the last year GoNorthEast ran it commercially wasn't it? Sure Arriva did that year aswell, or they did in the Northumbria area one year anyway.

Both haven't since, as far as I'm aware, sure it was all Nexus funded today, hence ending on the boundaries in multiple places.

Obviously Arriva don't want people using the subsidised services today in Northumbria either as they ran 'No Service' which probably explains the dire loads - https://www.arrivabus.co.uk/seasonal-bus...d-new-year (click on Newcastle).