(20 Dec 2020, 6:46 pm)streetdeckfan wrote Personally, I'd pick a slower, but more convenient bus service any day of the week! Chances are the train isn't within a short walking distance of the the house, so I'd be getting the bus to the train station, the getting the train, then probably just getting another bus from that train station to where I actually want to be.

To me, all that faff just isn't worth it unless it's cutting a 2 hour journey to a half hour journey.

tbf though most those places don't have a bus alternative anyway:

• Fallowfield has the 4 but that's a change to Newcastle somewhere.
  
• Barlow Mow has the 25 but it doesn't connect to Team Valley and it's slow.
  
• Harraton and Rickleton you'd have to get the 2 or 81 and change at Washington.
  
• Follingsby Park doesn't have a bus service at all.
  
• Teal Farm doesn't really have a bus service at all either.
  
• Usworth has the 56 but it takes 50 minutes to Newcastle.
  

From Fallowfield etc which are quite large communities you'd journey times down quite a bit.

It's about going the other way aswell though like from Gosforth to Nissan right now is nigh on impossible with the train there the Metro / Train would take about 30 - 35 minutes then you'd have a 5 minute bus which is reasonable and would quicker be than a car. Right now you'd have to drive really unless you got to Metro to Gateshead then sit on the 56 for 45 minutes which is unreasonable. Heck you could even extend the Pelaw shorts (using the battery) through to Washington and give a direct train at peaks from the Regent Centre / Monkseaton to Nissan

Oh and Fenceshouses would get to a train quicker since they're always moaning