(07 Aug 2014, 9:33 pm)Jimmi wrote At least the OK1 struck some fear for Arriva to improve their services in Bishop Auckland, after the OK1 was launched the X1 was introduced which offered faster journey times than the 1/1b and sometime afterwards the 6 was changed to run to run to West Auckland on a 12 minute frequency.
Yes passengers would just get on the first bus that turned up, the other issue was Arriva had more services in Bishop Auckland and Darlington which were more frequent and GNE had no other services in Darlington and little other services in Bishop Auckland.
In hindsight, it was a bit ambitious taking on one of Arriva's prime routes. Perhaps they should have looked at running into Bishop from places like Shildon, Evenwood etc, and feed into the Pronto for Durham and Newcastle. That is one of the jobs of the 18.