(08 Mar 2015, 7:55 pm)Malarkey wrote Go North East have there Chester le Street Depot in which a potential Service could operate from to provide competition with the X2/X12, and they could further utilise the Peterlee outstation also if they wanted to do so to store a few Vehicles, thus decreasing the running costs in Dead Mileage from Chester, so for example the Peterlee operations would do Journeys starting in Middlesborough/Durham, and Chester from Durham/Chester and Newcastle, just an example but there could be potential for competition along the Durham to Middlesborough corridor in my opinion, come to think of it didnt Go North East previously operate this route anyway before Arriva recieved there Durham/Darlington operations.
No, Go North East and United used to share what is now the X12/X2 (back when it was the X1) and also shared the X10. Then they split with United/Arriva retaining the X1 and GNE the X10.
There is next-to-no potential for competition on the Durham to Middlesbrough route as the bulk of the route has a large level of service already (Durham-Coxhoe is every 10 minutes with Arriva on 56/57/57a/X12 plus the hourly 58, Sedgefield-Middlesbrough has the X12 every 30 and the 21a every hour, along Durham Road in Stockton you have those 2 plus Stagecoach's 58 every 12 minutes and the Stillington service every hour - presently with Leven Valley).