(09 Aug 2015, 1:19 pm)Jimmi wrote Hey I went to Shildon and I don't have a sensible bus service, one driver seemed to do the 5 route instead of the 5A route through Shildon and the bus I got home was 10 minutes late - shock!

That's you though. You go to far greater lengths than I do to attend these things!

Plus, I've better things to be doing with my Sundays. Such as posting crap on Internet forums. 

(09 Aug 2015, 2:00 pm)BusLoverMum wrote I wonder how many more people were put off by the lack of promotion.

We picked up a leaflet about it at Howlands and that's the most information we've seen. It's barely even mentioned on the NELSAM website. We couldn't even be sure that it was still going ahead and didn't want to risk trailing the boys out to something that had been cancelled (or was truly crap) and enduring the resulting meltdown - probably from my husband as well as big'un, as he's tired and grumpy enough already, today!.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again; North East rallies tend to be very poorly promoted. A lot of it comes down to that it's been at 'x', on date 'y', since the year 'z'. We supported the promotion of such events by creating the events forum, and placing it at a prominent position on the forum index page. You can only lead a horse to water though.

If I had an idea of what was going to be at either event, then I'd have made more of an effort to attend, if there was something interesting about. Seems there was at Shildon!