(07 Oct 2023, 6:46 pm)Storx wrote No no no, not at all. It wasn't anything to do with seeing a 50 on the way back from the match and needing anything to think about...

The old 551 would have had quite a few stops. 
Pretty much the same route between Ayton and Shields. 
But the Chester to Ayton section ran via Birtley and Birtley Lane and beyond Chester, it ran to Sacriston.