(25 Jun 2014, 7:40 am)Acky81 Remember redby running in stagecoach colours for 139/140 routes now that was a strange one. If stagecoach busways didn't want the route shared with wear buses why not give it all to redby or wear buses. Never understood why it was run under licence by redby for stagecoach hmmm!!

(22 Jul 2014, 6:43 pm)col87 I would like to see Stagecoach in Hartlepool bring back the X99 using the following route Hartlepool Interchange- Hartlepool Centre - Hart Village- Dalton Park - A19- Metrocentre- Newcastle what does anyone think

(23 Jul 2014, 9:08 am)Roland Pratt Why Hart Village?! Do you live there?!

(23 Jul 2014, 9:13 am)col87 No I live the other side of Hartlepool and since it would go near Hart Village it might as well serve it

(23 Jul 2014, 9:24 am)Acky81 Can't see it happening to be honest when northern rail run to Newcastle n metrocentre

(23 Jul 2014, 9:28 am)col87 True but it doesent mean you cant have a bus service is well how many places in tyne and wear have buses and the metro doing the simalur routres

(23 Jul 2014, 9:32 am)Acky81 Again like u say very true. Bus companies are just greedy though and will focus on high frequency town centre services. Look at Sunderland we had m39 and m40 services to metrocentre but these got axed due to lack of custom. Shields had m42 and m43 again axed. Hope your idea comes off though as I like fresh routes. Wish Sunderland would open some new routes

(23 Jul 2014, 9:34 am)tyresmoke There's got to be a market for a Hartlepool to Newcastle express, but it would have to offer more than the train, with a competitive journey time. This could be tricky to achieve whilst still picking up enough custom.

(23 Jul 2014, 10:16 am)Roland Pratt Some of these have been tried before - eg the Badgerbus. They operated then with council support so its highly unlikely they'd be operated commercially, even though they used to carry good loads.

(03 Aug 2014, 12:55 pm)benambro Would it ever be possible for the 52 and 34 to interwork in Teesside, as this would be only real solution as to how the E300's are to work on the Middlesbrough services, which would mean that the 34,52 and 58 could all use the DDA ALX300's, the 35, 59 and 61 could be ran by cascaded dennis darts from other stagecoach depots, and the 13 could be a mix of darts, deckers (from schoolars) and DDA alx300's (if deckers were placed on other services like the 52/58 or 11/12). That's how I see it running, unless Newcastle single deckers get updated and we get their DDA Alx300's/e300's (from 100), which would be more beneficial for reserves.

(03 Aug 2014, 12:55 pm)benambro Would it ever be possible for the 52 and 34 to interwork in Teesside, as this would be only real solution as to how the E300's are to work on the Middlesbrough services, which would mean that the 34,52 and 58 could all use the DDA ALX300's, the 35, 59 and 61 could be ran by cascaded dennis darts from other stagecoach depots, and the 13 could be a mix of darts, deckers (from schoolars) and DDA alx300's (if deckers were placed on other services like the 52/58 or 11/12). That's how I see it running, unless Newcastle single deckers get updated and we get their DDA Alx300's/e300's (from 100), which would be more beneficial for reserves.

(03 Aug 2014, 1:01 pm)Kuyoyo No way for the 52 and 34 to interwork - the 52 being every 12 minutes and the 34 being every 30 minutes rules that out straight away. The only way to split the 34 away from the Middlesbrough services would be to revert back to the original operation and interwork it with the 35 - which would then have the added bonus of helping the relaiblity of the 35.

(03 Aug 2014, 1:00 pm)Roland Pratt A 'solution'? I didn't know there was a problem!
Why would they want Dennis Darts?!

(03 Aug 2014, 4:33 pm)benambro considering the fact that the 34 and 52 in Billingham (from mill lane to low grange) run around 5 minutes after eachother (and quite a few usually late so they run together), so it could work, although it would mean 2 buses to low grange coming in at the same time.