(31 Jan 2022, 5:32 pm)Dan wrote It's impossible to co-ordinate the 684/685 completely: the 684 has an end-to-end journey time of 1hr 8m, whereas the 685 has an end-to-end journey time of 51m.

To co-ordinate the times from Hexham, you'd then have an uneven spread of departures out of Newcastle. The latter is more likely to cause an issue as departures in Eldon Square are governed by strict guidelines to avoid stand clashes.

So effectively the timetable is co-ordinated both east and westbound between Heddon-on-the-Wall and Newcastle, but if you just miss a 685, customers have the option of catching the 684 half an hour later, but they'll only arrive into Hexham 13 minutes earlier than the 685 which follows half an hour afterwards.

The X84/X85 have never been co-ordinated well either and it's because the X84 (and now 684) was always the slower of the two.

Dan looking at the X85, on the AD122 buses seems to be quite good, with only 8 seats remaining, could if it kept like this possible have a double decker or a E200 operating it on a evening, and that could operate a 'peak' 10 instead of the dead run from Hexham to Newcastle. And on morning, send a 10 running X85 down, and turning into 10.