(5 hours ago)Malarkey wrote I think personally they're going back to how it was several years back when the X1 served Dalton Park but now with the addition of Haswell Plough which seems odd to me, where do you turn the bus round there???

Personally I would've potentially looked at a variation after Hetton-Le-Hole going via Low Moorsley and High Pittington to Sherburn Village.

If you look at it as well they seem to be slowly edging back towards potentially serving Hartlepool. 

I do think there is wider issue they've not factored in at Dalton Park and that is the X6/X10 and duplicating services, so I thought I'd do a few changes whilst also factoring in the 65.

X1 - Newcastle to Easington Lane and Peterlee
via Gateshead, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Wrekenton, Springwell Village, Washington, Shiney Row, Houghton-le-Spring, Hetton-le-Hole, Murton, Dalton Park and Peterlee Moorcock

• Extended to Peterlee via Murton, Dalton Park and Peterlee Moorcock reinstating old links and in part replacing the X6 between Peterlee and Dalton Park operating Every 30 Minutes. 
  

X6/X6A Sunderland to Durham
via Grangetown, Seaham, New Seaham, Spectrum Business Park, Dalton Park, Murton, Hetton-le-Hole, Low Moorsley, Low Pittington, Belmont and Gilesgate

• The X6 would after Dalton Park no longer go to Peterlee as it is replaced by the revised variation of X1, the service would instead be merged into the 65 providing a Cross County Durham Coast Express service between Durham and Sunderland maintaining existing frequencies of Every 30 Minutes. 
  

X10 - Newcastle to Middlesbrough
via Gateshead, Heworth, Peterlee, Billingham, Norton and Stockton

• The service would no longer serve Dalton Park and would instead stick to the A19 offering a faster service to Newcastle and Middlesbrough, customers wanting to go to Dalton Park are advised to get the X1. 
  

In terms of turning a bus at Haswell Plough, you  do a loop from Haswell. And you’d be surprised how many people go to Dalton Park from Teesside in fairness. I’d always argue though that the X9 should be returned rather than extensions to the X1