(10 Sep 2021, 4:06 pm)Train8261 wrote Strange to see the X6,X16,X85 be withdrawn were these any good in passengers numbers
X16, yes - but I think the costs of a Morpeth-Newcastle short journey were marginal as opposed to a longer run, and Covid made it unviable. Before Covid, they could've got away with a half-hourly X15 between Alnwick and Newcastle, but perhaps not now.
X6 was a handful of journeys against Go North East's more regular 309/310/X39, and the X85 probably died a death with the introduction of X-lines.