(21 Aug 2022, 7:15 am)DeltaMan wrote I wonder if NCC need the bus to do a school from September before and after the 681, and that is why they changed it?Looking at the timetable it does scream that it's timetabled to fit round a scholars duty.
That would explain the squeezed timetable
The later journeys on Saturday afternoons do remain however departing Alston at 15:15 and Birdoswald at 16:30 heading to Alston via Haltwhistle (must say I did the last 681 on a Saturday from Haltwhistle to Alston just before the changes and it only carried me and another enthusiast trying out the demo Iveco Ilesbus, was surprised to pick up another passenger along the route on the now withdrawn X81 to Hexham)