Go North East

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RE: Go North East
We will be making the following changes to services around Houghton-le-Spring and Hetton-le-Hole from 11th November 2012:
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Service 71 will operate only between Chester-le-Street and Houghton-le-Spring as planned. However, as a result of this consultation, Go North East is pleased to announce there will be no changes to Metrolink service M1. It will continue to operate every 10 minutes Monday-Saturday daytimes throughout the length of the route. This maintains a high frequency service to Houghton-le-Spring for connections to other services towards Sunderland.
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Service 20 will continue to operate every 10 minutes between Durham and Sunderland only.
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In response to the comments received during consultation, the service will operate on its current route every 20 minutes, maintaining a service through Hall Lane Estate and Gillas Lane to Durham, Houghton-le-Spring and Sunderland.
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Alternate journeys will operate as service 20A via Rainton Bridge every 20 minutes.
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Service 35 will continue to operate every 10 minutes, all the way through to South Shields.
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Every 20 minutes, the service will operate to Low Moorsley via Hetton-le-Hole and Hetton Downs, providing an improved frequency. These 35 journeys will omit Silksworth, providing a faster journey to Sunderland Royal Hospital and City Centre. This will replace services X36 and X37.
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Every 20 minutes, the service will operate as service 35A to Rainton Bridge. The 35A and 20A will combine to provide a service every 10 minutes between Rainton Bridge and Houghton-le-Spring. These service 35A journeys will omit Sunderland Royal Hospital, to provide a faster journey time into the City Centre.
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Evening and Sunday journeys will continue to operate once per hour to Low Moorsley and once per hour to South Hetton.
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Service X20 will continue to operate, at peak times only as proposed.
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Service X35 will be retimed by up to 10 minutes to improve timings at Doxford International following customer requests.