(29 Aug 2013, 6:24 pm)CatsFast101 wrote And this was at the time when GNE took away direct links to increase Buzzfare sales and frequent services I'm almost certain.
I believe GNE have gone a bit too far in their obsession with having high frequency routes on a relatively small number of services. It is, of course, impractical to ever think that you'll have a direct link to anywhere in the North East from a certain location, but there's a pretty high number of direct links that have been lost in recent years which passengers would have found useful. Not everyone travels between points on the high frequency routes.