(06 Jun 2021, 9:44 pm)Storx wrote No worries, yeah probably do the Metro change instead; more frequent and not sure what the connections are like at Cobalt.

In the end I caught route 19 from Ashington just as far as Cramlington.  I wanted to see both towns, then Blyth, and this was still a respectable journey and dropped me off at a good bus interchange.  My 19 was a Solo SR but I saw some Scania Omnicities on it.

Route 434 had a Volvo B9TL on it.  I anticipated a much smaller vehicle, more likely a Solo.