(22 Sep 2017, 8:37 am)G-CPTN wrote Thanks - that starts to make sense.

Nah, I think you're both wrong...

I believe the bus does this:

AM light to Winlaton, 90 to TVTE, light back to Winlaton for another 90, light to Consett, 689 to Hexham, light to Corbridge, short 686 to Hexham, (driver change) then a 686 Hexham - Prudhoe - Hexham round trip, (driver change) 689 to Consett, light to Tanfield, scholars to Crookgate, light to TVTE for 1605 90 to Winlaton, light to Blaydon, 12 Blaydon to Newcastle to form the 1730 X85 to Hexham St Andrews Cemetery.

There's another bus that does an AM X85 from St Andrews to Newcastle, light to Ovington RE for the first 686 trips, back to Hexham in service at 1210. Not sure what it does for the afternoon, but I'd guess that after a driver change it's light back to Ovington RE for the afternoon Prudhoe 686 trips.

Hexham doesn't do the Jesmond schools any more.