Passed an X24 on the way home from Newcastle Airport that was heading for the Metrocentre, with about 3 or 4 passengers on a Pulsar. Hardly surprising that it's being dropped on a Sunday after Xmas.

I rode the X24 when I went to the Metrocentre rally this year and it had a decent amount of passengers onboard. Must have been a one off. I think the timings for the X24 on a Sunday are all wrong, the first one leaves Durham at 0910 arriving at 0952 an hour before the shops open and the last one leaves the MetroCentre at 1755 almost an hour after the shops have closed (I know the cinema and restaurants are open later) I think the service should have started at 1010 and the last one leaving Durham at 1610 and the MetroCentre at 1655.

I still think the X24 would do better if Arriva promoted it a bit more, as apart from the £1 return ticket last week I have never seen any promotion for this service and that was poor as it was just posts on their Facebook page and a small poster next to the timetables in Durham Bus Station and the end result was disappointing there was only a small handful of passengers on the 1110 from Durham that day. I once went to the Metrocentre when the service started at Bishop Auckland and when it arrived at the MetroCentre there was an announcement over the tannoy saying something like "passengers who have arrived off service X24 the last bus to Bishop Auckland today will be at 1625" that doesn't happen anymore, you sometimes still get it for the GNE X22 though. I would like to see timetables on all buses in the Durham area.