(29 Oct 2021, 3:52 pm)Storx wrote Not sure why a bus company would want to look at that data. Rail and buses just aren't the same. It's not useful information so it'll just be skewed massively since there's a totally different demographic.

Car users will never move to a bus which takes longer than driving as it is from the likes of Washington as the bus will never be quicker and there's already the X1.

Buses are slow.
Cars are direct.
Trains are the quickest, as long as you happen to want to be where it goes.

A train from Fencehouses to Newcastle isn't going to be as attractive as a car, but a train from Fencehouses to a major employment site like Follingsby or the Amp is going to be as attractive and certainly more direct than a car and could certainly attract numbers.
Find a bus route which is quicker than the 4 (or the 4 and 50 or 56) and it becomes a more viable alternative to the car. 

Look at the other station sites in various directions and repeat the exercise. 

Cars have more flexibility than trains. As do buses. If the numbers stack up for trains and its a viable alternative to the car, then it can be just as viable for the train.