(10 Aug 2015, 5:35 pm)mb134 wrote That seems very unnecessary in my opinion, the X22 journey time from Ashington is well under an hour, similar to the 35 and X14/5/8 combination.
Couple that with the hideous reliability of the Morpeth express services, and the patchy 35 reliability (in my experience), I can't see many advantages to going about it that way. I'm not sure on this, but is it more expensive doing that as well?
Final point, I'd prefer to get a nice bus, with e-leather seating, NSA's, WiFi, sockets etc, than a 15 year old ex-London double decker on the 35, then a unbelievably busy MPD on the X14. Not sure why anyone would prefer the latter?
I have heard of it before, I've even resulted in using the X14/5/8 and 35 before. If you have a £7 day ticket which every driver issues on the X21/22 then you can use that on the 35 & Morpeth Xs.