(30 Oct 2019, 9:03 pm)BusLoverMum wrote </p><p>
</p><p><br></p><p>You're forgetting GNE's extensive network around Consett, Stanley and Chester le Street. </p><p>
</p><p><br></p><p>They're not particually rural in the sense of the X14 / X15 / X18 where they travel miles between villages along country roads. Stagecoach have much better experience in bus routes of the sort with the bus routes in the lakes and their Highland operations which are operated by low floor coaches etc over long distances. Inverness to Thurso and Inverness to Aberdeen for example, which would be more more suited for the routes. Consett, Stanely and Chester Le Street are more sub-urban bus routes really in comparision.<br></p>