(22 Feb 2023, 9:50 pm)Jimmi wrote It depends what your use for the train service is really, if you want to travel between Bishop and Darlington Town Centre's then you're better off with the X1 when you factor in the times for walking to/from the stations, but if you're connecting with a Mainline service at Darlington, then you're better off with the train, it's also much quicker and more convenient to get to other areas along the line, for example on the first Saltburn bound train from Bishop Auckland on weekday mornings, you often get people who work on Aycliffe Industrial Estate and the UTC students alighting at Heighington Station.

It depends, if you live right next to the train station then maybe.
For me personally it's 10 minutes faster to just take the X1 to Darlington then walk to the station than taking the train from Bishop because I'm 1.5 miles from the station, so have to spend 7 minutes on the bus to get there (ironically the fastest bus is the X1!)