(11 Jul 2020, 10:06 pm)Storx wrote Why is there always an obsession on this forum that if a bus goes from say Blyth to Newcastle then every person can just use a different bus from Blyth to Newcastle and it's all fine. It's all good comparing the X9/X10 and X12 but they're not the same bus route at all apart from 1 stop at each end.
That was exactly the point, for people from Newcastle, the X12 is a service to Durham that happens to carry on to Middlesbrough, and for people from Middlesbrough, it's a service to Durham that happens to continue on to Newcastle.
The issue is if someone just turns up at Eldon Square looking for a bus to Middlesbrough (however unlikely that is), they're going to look at the board and see the X12 as the only option. The great thing about Nexus timetables is they actually tell you roughly how long the journey is, so a passenger may just look at the timetable and see it takes a bloody age to get there and think "Sod it, I'm getting the train" rather than looking for the X9/X10