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On the face of it, the X6 between Poole and Bournemouth is an odd one. The 5 or 6 miles between them gets stretched out to 30 miles gallop through Dorset, reaching as far as Verwood before heading back for the coast.
My assumption is that it used to be two different routes which merged (Poole-Verwood, Bournemouth-Verwood). Image below is a rough guesstimate, btw.
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There'a a couple of these type of routes on the Wirral, notably 413 Woodside-Seacombe, 414 Woodside-New Brighton, & evening & Sunday 423 Liverpool-Seacombe, however main point of the route is to connect Leasowe & Moreton with Upton, Arrowe Park Hospital, Birkenhead & Liscard rather than passengers going end to end as 409/410 & 411 are much much quicker Woodside to Seacombe[409/411], Liscard[409/410] & New Brighton[410/411] 413/414 both take around 70 minutes, 423 takes around 90 minutes, 409/410/411 take 20 to 35 minutes