(28 Jun 2022, 2:40 pm)Unber43 wrote Also don't forget its like an extra 30 mins from Durham on the quickest way.If it runs.
And probs about the same from CLS aswell
The just before 11am x21 started at Chester, this morning, so we caught the 50 to get the 21 before the one we'd have to wait for in Durham. Still rolled into Newcastle just behind the x21 after the one we couldn't catch because the 21 we were on was very busy and delayed.
So, to get to the metrocentre, we've gone from the x22 plus 8 buses an hour into Gateshead (including the x12) to 5 buses an hour into Gateshead, if they even run.
Our alternate route was bus into Stanley then one of the M buses, which took about the same time as the 21 +x66. They've been even more severely curtailed, so that's out unless we get lucky on a return journey, now.
The plus of walking the legitimate way round Gateshead interchange is that you clock the massive, rowdy, queue for an x66 that is nowhere in sight and hop onto the waiting 49, instead.