(23 Feb 2021, 4:18 pm)James101 wrote Dalton Park is useful as an unofficial park & ride for East Durham and Hartlepool to Newcastle by bus. I find plenty of people are put off by there prospect of driving & parking in the city centre. Slowing down the journey in Teesside by combing both routes all day would sabotage the time advantage over the train.The idea was to have one serve Teesside stops and the other goes direct to Peterlee. My thinking view is from a Teessider to be honest, I didn't really think many people from Newcastle used the x9/x10. I'm sure Dalton Park can be served by the one that goes direct to Peterlee then
The X10 serves all of Teesside except Billingham, which is weird anyway because the X10 goes into Billingham from Norton to enter the motorway so surely joining the extra two stops at Billingham isn't going to add that much extra time.
Also Middlesbrough to Newcastle by the train takes a long time, even longer now Horden has been added to the service.