(19 May 2014, 4:31 pm)AdamY wrote Is your guestimate based upon stops in one or both directions?
The stops used for service X5 between Shiney Row and Easington Lane were as follows: Herrington Burn; Philadelphia Depot; Newbottle Jolly Potter; Houghton-le-Spring Church; and Hetton-le-Hole Colliery Inn.
If it's based on one direction, then the X5 stopped at only a quarter of the stops used by service X1 today.
Are all the stops well used on this route? - Drawing upon my own observations travelling from Rowlands Gill to Metrocentre or Newcastle, there are at least three stops which are rarely used (Thornley Woodlands Centre; Swalwell Juniors and Swalwell Cricket/Tennis Clubs. If I were a scheduler then I'd might not assign as much time to these stops as I would to others.
Wrote two detailed responses - lost one post and the other one vanished when the battery died.
There are 20 stops as it stands between Shiney Row and Easington Lane (in either direction). The lost post listed them all.
When I said the x5 stopped at half of those, it included Shiney Row and Easington Lane and also stops I thought it called at, in Graswell and Hetton Road.
Quiet stops include: Philli, Kingdom Hall southbound (northbound always seems to attract punters) and a couple between Hetton and Easington Lane.
Any time made up at the quieter stops is lost at the busier one, particularly at Shiney and Houghton.
There always seems a canny load at Easington Lane too.