(12 Aug 2017, 6:52 am)Dan wrote Hello - welcome to the forum!
Though confirmation has yet to be posted on Go North East's own website; the routing of the X10 service via Dalton Park has been officially registered with the traffic commissioner, to be operated from 3rd September 2017 (so yes, it's definitely happening!) You can also now plan your journey on the Traveline Journey Planner, with confirmed times for when the X10 will operate.
Good to hear that there is a purpose for the early morning journeys through Dalton Park, after all. Connections between services 61 and 202 and X10 at Dalton Park will be promoted - it's not just people from Murton who will be able to travel to Teesside more easily now, it's people from Sunderland too (no need to travel all the way to Gateshead or Heworth to head back south afterwards - just catch the 61 to Dalton Park!)
Looking at traveline:
From Middlesbrough the first X10 to Dalton Park will be, 6:14am from Bus Station Stand 18 (18), Newport Road, Middlesbrough, arriving at Dalton Park for 7:01am.
First X10 from Newcastle to Dalton Park will be at 6am which will arrive at 6:39am
However there's a X10 from Gateshead at 5:20am towards Dalton Park, which will arrive at 5:48am
Glad they've gone for the early connections on the routes... however the first 61 at Dalton Park isn't until 7:57am towards Sunderland, The X6, 202 and 265 the first buses to arrive and leave at Dalton Park aren't until,
X6 towards Sunderland: 7:52am
X6 towards Hartlepool: 7:44am
202 towards Peterlee: 6:46am
202 towards Seaham Byron Place: 7:18am
265 towards Durham: 6:48am
265 towards Seaham: 8:22am
Hopefully some of these change to allow the connections to work.