(28 Mar 2017, 10:06 pm)BusLoverMum wrote And yeah, the extra £1.90 is well worth it when I'm travelling to Newcastle - with the £7.80 ticket, I only have the option of the X12. With the explorer, you can add in the GNE services, X21, 21 and even the X30/X31 followed by the 16/16, or if I'm feeling really radical, I can get the metro or Stagecoach X24 to Sunderland and get a bus straight home from there. i could in theory get the X9 to Peterlee, but the connection is a duff one - much like the X12 when it gets back to DBS, in fact - I hopped on that at CLS, after an aborted trip to Newcastle, yesterday morning, and had time to run up to M&S on Silver Street to grab some of the shopping I couldn't get at Waitrose, after the morning's agenda was complete, before catching my 22, because I'd missed the previous one by 5 minutes.