(24 Aug 2020, 5:44 pm)tcts24 wrote I'm guessing the 2 changes at Hartlepool and Middlesbrough centres are optional and the Redcar stop is compulsary? I was a little baffled by the Redcar stop as most buses that serve Saltburn go to Middlesbrough via Redcar anyways.

If I included your Redcar stop, I originaly had it down as 1 bus too many...

7 Stagecoach Owton Manor - Foggy Furze
1 Stagecoach Foggy Furze - Middlesbrough
X3A Arriva Middlesbrough - Redcar
3 Arriva Redcar - Saltburn
X4 Arriva Saltburn - Middlesbrough
X12 Arriva Middlesbrough - Durham
265 Go Ahead Durham - Dalton Park
23 Arriva Dalton Park - Hartlepool
3A Stagecoach Hartlepool - Owton Manor

For some bizarre reason I'd completely forgotten about the X10!

So change the X12 to X10 and remove the 265 completely and that brings me down to 8 buses.

The one thing that bothers me, is I'm passing back through Redcar on the X4. The only way I can think of to avoid that is to catch the X4 in the opposite direction to Whitby and the X93 back to Middlesbrough. But that takes me one bus over again.

Hartlepool and Middlesbrough allowed twice as in most cases it's unavoidable although you found the way round it.  You need to go though Redcar to get to and from Saltburn so thought would make it so needed to stop there on one of the journeys.  Good attempt though