(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.
Park Lane in Sunderland can get quite bad at times, that's why Stagecoach Sunderland pulled their services out ages ago, except for the peak time service X1..... Stagecoach South Shields still run the E1,E2,E6 in to Park Lane.