(25 Jan 2022, 12:20 am)Storx wrote It's alright my taxes will be keeping it running instead. I'm not sure why there's so many buses running around Hexham as it is when every other town in Northumberland has nothing of the sort.

It's a place that badly needs a DRT system (or a few taxis) running to all the random routes like the 683, 686, 687 and soon to be 684 since they'd be able to use Ovingham Bridge. It would arguably be a better service anyway (connecting to the train stations for onward travel to Newcastle).

Berwick, Alnwick, Cramlington and Morpeth have their own lesser advertised town networks, roughly the same as Hexham's.

Berwick:

• B1: Ramparts-Berwick-Tweedmouth
  
• Hoppa: Berwick-Prior Park-Tweedside
  

Alnwick:

• T01: Barrasdale-Alnwick-St James Estate-Shilbottle-Amble
  

Cramlington:

• 58: East Hartford-Beacon Hill-Cramlington-East Cramlington
  
• 57/57A and X9 also provide into-town links.
  

Morpeth:

• T1A/T1B/T1C: Morpeth-estates
  
• 2 provides a Kirkhill and Stobhillgate into-town link
  

I think that the same brand and similar route numbers gives the impression that there's a tonne of buses running around Hexham and nowhere else, but only one or two services actually seem to stay within a couple of miles of the town centre.

Everything else could be compared with the X14 up to Rothbury from Morpeth or the 470/473 out to Wooler from Alnwick.