(07 Oct 2015, 10:54 pm)BusLoverMum wrote At Washington Galleries, Gateshead interchange and Metrocentre, buses sharing the same stand and eventual destination just park up behind each other. Ones like Eldon Square, Peterlee and Durham, they do use different, often neighbouring stands. The GNE 21 and Arriva X12 are often parked up next to each other, for example - leave Durham within a few minutes of each other, follow the same route, though the X12 doesn't follow all the stops and the X12 ends up at Eldon Square in the stand next to the 21, a few minutes before it arrives.
Anyone using Durham is used to stand hopping, anyhow. That station is seriously over capacity.
The Haymarket can have that problem, the lat time I was there the 21 was 12 minutes late on a cold evening I got on at the wrong stand and was nearly on the 44, to make matters worse at Chester le Street the police arrested someone, put me off the ANGEL service south of Gateshead, now use the train or the PRONTO.