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July service changes 2026

RE: July service changes 2026
(Yesterday, 10:28 am)Nerd4321 wrote https://www.gonortheast.co.uk/share-your...ce-changes
(Yesterday, 10:59 am)MurdnunoC wrote Doesn't the 691 exist as the X81? It did a couple of years ago, for sure.

Wonder if there's some further changes planned or if there's some errors in that timetable as currently there seems to be a bit of a gap before the 1900 departure out of Alston, on weekdays I think the bus ends the day in Haltwhistle.

Yes it was the X81 before, was withdrawn on July 24th 2022 as the description on a Flickr photo I uploaded a few weeks prior shows when I rode the Iveco Daily Ilesbus i-City MAX demonstrator:
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RE: July service changes 2026
Seems the morning times are different too, as it didn't get to Alston until just before 0900 after looking at the EXIF of the photo I took of the Mercedes Benz Sprinter City demo GNE had used on hte X81/681 circuit in 2017.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/gjm-photog...4897620482
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RE: July service changes 2026
(Yesterday, 10:28 am)Nerd4321 wrote https://www.gonortheast.co.uk/share-your...ce-changes

Idk what to say but

Really 

There's absolutely nothing here to mention bar the fact they want to withdraw the 644

Agreed, 

While this new day and age where GNE consult on changes before they go ahead with them is admirable, personally I think it only really needs to apply for more substantive changes or significant reductions. I guess mentioning potential improvements is useful too (the X1 to Haswell Plough may not have happened cause ultimately nobody cared), although I think people are more likely to respond and say don't do something than they are to write-in and say yes go ahead.

Having said all that, asking people about retiming journeys by a couple minutes is a bit of an overkill - in the grand scheme of things its not going to have that significant of a change on people's lives.