(09 Aug 2026, 7:34 am)Storx wrote See under franchising I'd move the 22 into the 60/61 corridor and combine stuff together.
So you'd end up with something like, but renumbered appropriately:
22/60/61: Every 7.5 Minutes from Sunderland to West Lea
22/61: Every 15 Minutes from Sunderland to Dalton Park
X20/23 Extension: Every 15 Minutes from Houghton to Sunderland Fast
23/24: Every 15 Minutes Peterlee to Hartlepool
It's much cleaner than now where stuff just sits on top of each other especially along that corridor.
Depot wise you could then do
Deptford takes on the:
22/23/24
X21/X22 (ANE)
Belmont takes on the:
7
14
65
X12
X21 (GNE) (Merge this with the 6)
59
Peterlee locals go as a small packages.
It would sort out a few of the headaches with dodgy interworking (14/50 and 20/65 in particular) and remove duplication in East Durham operations wise.
This is exactly why a logical numbering scheme needs reintroducing