There's no demand for nightbuses imo. As a bus carrying 20 passengers won't pick up anyone up and has to get back to Newcastle or whatever no money there.

I know I've mentioned it before but it's the sort of place where DRT would work but not as it is now. Work it on the basis of you book a taxi, and it groups passengers going to same place or thereabouts and everyone gets the same minibus or a 7 seater if it's 3 of groups 2 etc. for a discounted price with further discounts for groups if they all go to the same stop similar to a taxi.

It's the halfway house and certainly better than what happens now where you have to wait 45 minutes where 20 taxis are going to Whitley Bay and back half the time carrying nothing.