(07 Jul 2019, 4:41 pm)streetdeckfan wrote
My issue is that they've literally changed nothing about the 45/46/47 other than change the name. Sure it's now none stop between Metrocentre and Newcastle, but it might as well have been already, in all the times I've used them, I've rarely seen anyone get on or off between them.
And I actually don't think the X21 should fall under X-Lines at all, as I don't see it as an express service. Yes, between Newcastle and Durham it is, but the rest of the route it isn't. In my eyes at least, for a service to be branded as express, there has to be a slow alternative, and since the X21 is the only GNE service that goes to Bishop, it's not.
But the X21 is still an express even from Bishop Auckland as Bishop Auckland uses to only get the slower 21 or 724 service.