(06 Dec 2020, 8:48 pm)MurdnunoC wrote Well...
If I were travelling between Newcastle and Consett, I wouldn't be driving my car through Tantobie and Burnopfield; or Medomsley, Hamsterley Mill and Burnopfield.
I also wouldn't be driving through Throckley, Wylam, Ovigham or Ovington if driving between Newcastle and Hexham either. If that's not meandering, I don't know what is...
tbf is there any bus route in the whole North East you'd travel using the bus route it takes in a car, I can't think of any. Certainly none of the X Lines routes you'd use the route they use to get from A to B and I wouldn't expect them to either.
btw going through Medomsley is the quickest way through to the Swalwell rather than via Shotley Bridge and whoever said the X45/X46 is the way you'd drive you wouldn't you'd go through Sunniside and Dipton, it's much quicker.