Stagecoach MCSL - Chester & Wirral Depots

[mrd97]

RE: Stagecoach MCSL - Chester & Wirral Depots

(26/07/2019 02:23)Valandil Wrote:  Shame that the X1 will generally take over 1 and a half hours end to end.
As there is a great increase in the running time of the route to Runcorn and it looks certain from the timetable to interwork with the shorts to Ellesmere Port, I wonder if this will change the number of deckers required on the (X)2 route.
At least there will be the late service on the 1 through the tunnel to Bromborough.

The things I don’t see is how it can be prefixed ‘X’ - it takes nearly the same amount of time to complete the journey as the 1 between Chester Interchange and Liverpool. To be an express service, it literally should be fast - when the X8 was first introduced, it took just over an hour to complete an end to end journey - but slowly every subsequent timetable change added more time to complete an end to end running.