(09 Aug 2013, 3:24 pm)gtomlinson wrote(09 Aug 2013, 3:20 pm)W179SCU wrote I think people will use the X84/X85. If the reliability of the service can be good, unlike the reliability of the 685, it might gain some regular customers.
But people do use the 685 for journeys beyond Hexham, but it is a lot more busier on the Hexham-Newcastle section of the route!
I lived in Brampton through work for 6 months and it was always busy from Brampton up to Carlisle (as Brampton train station, the quicker option is in the middle of nowhere) but I think that some of the 685's may work short between Brampton and Carlisle?
Yeah, there are short 685's between Brampton and Carlisle provided by Stagecoach in Cumbria.