RE: X9 | X10 - Acquisition of interdeck coaches from Oxford Bus Company
You could easily stick a decent enough shelter outside City Library (in the current Megabus stop) and drop off there - 2 minutes walk to Northumberland Street, 10 to Newcastle and Northumbria Unis then it could turn onto B1309 and down Central Motorway back up into Gateshead.
Wistfully stuck in the 90s