(16 Mar 2022, 8:53 pm)Rapidsnap wrote 681 doesn't involve a dead run. It runs as the X81 from Hexham to Alston in the morning, and returns in the evening.
Surely there has to be a driver change at some point though? It's just over 10 hours between both journeys and the buses doesn't seem to come back to Hexham as it interworks with the 185 during the day.
Believe it's 10 hours a max a day.