(20 Jun 2013, 2:10 pm)tyresmoke wrote It can't compete with the Arriva X1 though, sending it to Middlesbrough gave them a different USP but not enough to make enough revenue to keep it running I guess. The loadings are only ever decent beyond Darlington when the X66 is running late. I'm not certain of the loadings between Bishop and Darlington but I don't believe they're anything to shout about.
Ive just sent an proposed suggestion awhile back about the short OK1 working between Bishop Auckland and Darlington to send it as a OK2 to Sunderland via Arriva 21 route.
I was in Peterlee bus station yesterday and the 21A came in and it got aload of passengers on and 10 minutes later the X7 came in to go to Middlesbrough and only a handful of passengers got on mostly all pensioners
Tyresmoke, Do you know what the loadings like on the Arriva 21 and if you did the 31/31A to Sunderland was there many passengers traveling through onto Sunderland?