(20 Jun 2023, 11:45 pm)streetdeckfan wrote If I was going to Tesco or Homebase, I'd happily take the train.
If I was going into Hexham proper, I'd take the bus purely so I don't have to walk up the bank.
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Who wants to go there though :p there's nowt there, that place is competing with Bishop Auckland lately.
(21 Jun 2023, 3:06 am)Jimmi wrote Whilst at the same time, the X85 was removed from Heddon-on-the-Wall to speed up the journey and save a bus from the PVR but the numbers wanting to go direct between the two places just didn't materialise for them to keep the X85 going (with X84 revised slightly to revert back to the 684).
May be wrong but I think the E400MMCs may not have been intended for the X84/X85 originally, think they were ordered for other routes but changes and cuts during COVID left them free to be deployed elsewhere, so think they made the best of a bad situation with them at the time by upgrading the X84/X85 and bringing it into the Xlines brand in the process.
Aye I think your right, I know the X21 was meant to get an upgrade aswell at the time but they got the B5's. Where they were meant to go is anyone's guess.