(14 Jul 2013, 8:11 pm)nk55 wrote If my memory serves me right the X21 takes 48 mins from durham to newcastle, where as the X2 takes longer, the 21 being the slowest of the 3.

X21 takes 49 mins, X2 isn't that much longer at 54 minutes, so there's only 5 minutes different despite the X21 not stopping between Chester-Le-Street and Gateshead while the X2 stops in Birtley and Low Fell.