(17 Aug 2020, 4:15 pm)BusLoverMum wrote Either through Durham and consett when the 689(?) is running a full Saturday timetable or head via Sunderland, get the x24 which goes nowhere near Gateshead interchange, then Newcastle to Hexham to do it in 6 buses there and back.

(18 Aug 2020, 2:10 pm)ASX_Terranova wrote In 9 Buses: 57 (To Durham), 16 (To Stanley), X30 (To Newcastle), 10 (To Hexham), X84 (To Newcastle), 310 (to North Shields), 319 (to Jarrow), 9 (to Sunderland), 22 (to Hartlepool).
It would have been 8 a few years ago as well.
Also do Nat Ex Coaches Count?

(18 Aug 2020, 3:15 pm)Storx wrote The 310 doesn't serve Eldon Square it's Haymarket Close though - got the right idea, the 57/24, 23 (not 22), X84/X85/685 and X30 are part of it though to give a little hint

No Nat Ex but can definitely see how you'd do it that way though.

(18 Aug 2020, 5:27 pm)ASX_Terranova wrote Is there a way it could be done using the tunnel?
Is the 78 one of the services, could go ncl to cls then cls to park lane or even 71 to new seaham.

(18 Aug 2020, 5:44 pm)Storx wrote Nah don't think so with the Tunnel as you can't get from Eldon Square to N. Shields easily since Eldon Square only really goes south. Can't get from NCL to CLS though without going through Gateshead . You're on the right track with the 78 though

I'll give you another big hint though, look at one of the services I didn't list before

(18 Aug 2020, 6:02 pm)ASX_Terranova wrote 36/X12/X5/X45/10/685/X30/78/22 = 9 Changes
57/X5/X45/74/685/X30/8/22 = 8 Changes
22/939/91/685/74/10/X22/57 = 8 Changes (?)

If you include my proposed network : 57(ANE)/X20(GNE)/X8(TSX)/X85(GNE)/74(GNE)/X3(TSX)

(18 Aug 2020, 6:21 pm)Storx wrote You got it, didn't expect anyone to get that. It's the 23 though, 22 is Sunderland to Durham.

Couldn't do the bottom one though as the 91 doesn't serve Eldon Square and the X22 isn't running atm but usually you could do the X22.

(18 Aug 2020, 2:10 pm)ASX_Terranova wrote In 9 Buses: 57 (To Durham), 16 (To Stanley), X30 (To Newcastle), 10 (To Hexham), X84 (To Newcastle), 310 (to North Shields), 319 (to Jarrow), 9 (to Sunderland), 22 (to Hartlepool).
It would have been 8 a few years ago as well.
Also do Nat Ex Coaches Count?

(24 Aug 2020, 5:44 pm)tcts24 wrote I'm guessing the 2 changes at Hartlepool and Middlesbrough centres are optional and the Redcar stop is compulsary? I was a little baffled by the Redcar stop as most buses that serve Saltburn go to Middlesbrough via Redcar anyways.

If I included your Redcar stop, I originaly had it down as 1 bus too many...

7 Stagecoach Owton Manor - Foggy Furze
1 Stagecoach Foggy Furze - Middlesbrough
X3A Arriva Middlesbrough - Redcar
3 Arriva Redcar - Saltburn
X4 Arriva Saltburn - Middlesbrough
X12 Arriva Middlesbrough - Durham
265 Go Ahead Durham - Dalton Park
23 Arriva Dalton Park - Hartlepool
3A Stagecoach Hartlepool - Owton Manor

For some bizarre reason I'd completely forgotten about the X10!

So change the X12 to X10 and remove the 265 completely and that brings me down to 8 buses.

The one thing that bothers me, is I'm passing back through Redcar on the X4. The only way I can think of to avoid that is to catch the X4 in the opposite direction to Whitby and the X93 back to Middlesbrough. But that takes me one bus over again.

(24 Aug 2020, 6:12 pm)col87 wrote Hartlepool and Middlesbrough allowed twice as in most cases it's unavoidable although you found the way round it.  You need to go though Redcar to get to and from Saltburn so thought would make it so needed to stop there on one of the journeys.  Good attempt though

(24 Aug 2020, 9:53 pm)Storx wrote Could do

7 -> Hartlepool
1 -> Middlesbrough
X3 -> Saltburn
X4 -> Whitby
X93 -> Middlesbrough
X10 -> Dalton Park
23 -> Hartlepool
3 -> Owsen Manor

Don't have to go through Redcar twice

(25 Aug 2020, 7:58 am)tcts24 wrote I would have probably went with that. But I'd got the impression a bus change in Redcar was compulsary. In which case, this would take it over the limit by 1 bus. Hence I opted to go back via Redcar but without changing on the return trip.

(25 Aug 2020, 8:15 am)ASX_Terranova wrote Could you go via york on this challange.

(25 Aug 2020, 7:58 am)tcts24 wrote I would have probably went with that. But I'd got the impression a bus change in Redcar was compulsary. In which case, this would take it over the limit by 1 bus. Hence I opted to go back via Redcar but without changing on the return trip.