(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.It would do if it wasn’t for that feeder journey - and that’s all it is. Rather than make it a dead run - which is what the contract is, they run it commercially in the hope that someone will get on it. It’s a really pain when the weather is bad.
same duty same driver same vehicle all day - even longer on a Saturday with a Hexham town service clagged on the end of it to add insult to injury unless it’s changed recently.