Blyth Regulation

[Unber43]

Are you just purposely ignoring the fact they're all wildly different routes serving different towns and villages?

I know they serve loads of different places but would there not be maybe be a away to cut atleast one of them and adjust another or a few to cover the same area, especially with the driver shortage

[Storx]

I know they serve loads of different places but would there not be maybe be a away to cut atleast one of them and adjust another or a few to cover the same area, especially with the driver shortage

The only services you could realistically cut like that is one of the expresses and extend it onto the end of the 43 but it wouldn't be popular.

ie. 43 split every 30 minutes via the X9/X10/X11 route from Cramlington or Seaton Burn to Blyth.

[mb134]

The only services you could realistically cut like that is one of the expresses and extend it onto the end of the 43 but it wouldn't be popular.

ie. 43 split every 30 minutes via the X9/X10/X11 route from Cramlington or Seaton Burn to Blyth.

The X9 would be horrendous if you were to do that to it, it's already the longest route from Blyth to Cramlington out of the current express routes. 

Similarly with the X10/11, you then unbalance the interworking pattern on those and you probably push the demand to the one which remains an express. It would also reduce capacity on the 43/X10/11 to Newcastle during the peaks, which I don't think they could cope with at present. 

Fiddling with the X7 is off the table, nothing else can serve Seghill, Seaton Delaval, Seaton Sluice, New Hartley easily. Similarly with the X8, nothing can easily be diverted to serve South Beach (you can't send an X10/11 without killing the service through Newsham), or High Pit. With both routes, no other route can be easily diverted to serve Burradon or Quorum.

[Storx]

The X9 would be horrendous if you were to do that to it, it's already the longest route from Blyth to Cramlington out of the current express routes. 

Similarly with the X10/11, you then unbalance the interworking pattern on those and you probably push the demand to the one which remains an express. It would also reduce capacity on the 43/X10/11 to Newcastle during the peaks, which I don't think they could cope with at present. 

Fiddling with the X7 is off the table, nothing else can serve Seghill, Seaton Delaval, Seaton Sluice, New Hartley easily. Similarly with the X8, nothing can easily be diverted to serve South Beach (you can't send an X10/11 without killing the service through Newsham), or High Pit. With both routes, no other route can be easily diverted to serve Burradon or Quorum.

Aye totally agreed, wasn't a suggestion tbh, was more the only thing that's possible at all.

Not sure what loadings are like on them but the best thing you could probably do is drop the 43/44/45 back down to every 10 minutes combined with the X30 scrapped. Not sure how doable that would be though.

Hopefully they can sort the driver issue out though to be honest, probably the easier thing to do.

[Solofan444]

I find it funny when bus enthusiasts think they run the company on here, and other pages

[Adrian]

I find it funny when bus enthusiasts think they run the company on here, and other pages

It's a discussion forum. People discuss things. That's how it works? 

No one is claiming to run a company.

[mb134]

Quite a few Blyth buses appear to be tracking incorrectly again. 7501, 7556, 7605, and 7612 are all tracking on 2 boards each as far as I can tell.

The second 7501 looks to have stopped tracking earlier at Haymarket, so I assume the bus has either broken there or it's given up trying to track.

[Shrek]

Quite a few Blyth buses appear to be tracking incorrectly again. 7501, 7556, 7605, and 7612 are all tracking on 2 boards each as far as I can tell.

The second 7501 looks to have stopped tracking earlier at Haymarket, so I assume the bus has either broken there or it's given up trying to track.

I passed what I believe was 7501 being towed near Brunton Park around 7pm.

[mb134]

Isn't really a thread for it, but Blyth look to be duplicating a 308 and X11 tonight for the football.

Ashington are duplicating an X21, a Morpeth express, and have 7542 doing a 306 extra.