(11 Jan 2015, 10:24 pm)Tom wrote No it isn't strange.
It's the local links that will be improved. 

I guess it's a little strange in the sense that Town End Farm isn't really a major 'hub' or anything like that - it's very much like a Lothian-style service. One end of the route is connected to a 'hub' (Chester-le-Street), whilst other hubs are served on route, and the other terminus is somewhere a little less known.