(07 Jun 2020, 4:09 pm)Economic505 wrote I agree , £5 return is excellent value. I used that ticket when the trains were on strike.
On the broader question of GNE, the company is forever changing their services. It seems that one bright spark in the timetabling department has a brain wave, creates an obscure route eg Murton to Jarrow; or the obsession with service numbers with ‘A’ or ‘B’ or ‘C’ variations. There are more examples of GNE chopping and changing constantly eg Silksworth services. I could go on ....
In my opinion, routes numbers with A, B or C variations should only exist when the destination is the same but they take a slightly different route, but they follow the same route for most of the journey. Take the 49/49A/49C for example.
Routes like the 10, where the varations only share a portion of the route but then go to completely different destinations should be separate services, because that's exactly what they are!