(12 Sep 2013, 8:51 pm)Andreos1 wrote If the majority (and I'm guessing they are) of people using the train from Hexham live in the outlying villages and are forced to drive into Hexham due to the lack of public transport in those areas, is the bus the better alternative?
It would be interesting to see the amount of train passengers who have season tickets too.
I'm not knocking the tynedalexpress, far from it. The more public transport, the better.
Without joining the mass debate between you and eezypeazy, the season ticket data is workout-able from the published rail ticket data set and it's not as huge as you'd think. It is a good point that there is a fair number of people who get dropped off at the station, but there's a lot more that make their way to the bus station. The rural bits around Hexham have never really been blessed with great public transport as there's not enough folk to make it pay unfortunately.