(10 Mar 2023, 8:31 am)mb134 wrote While I think there will be some migration from buses to the train for people commuting to Newcastle, I don't see it being the death of ANEs services. 

The Blyth stations for example are out the way of the town centre, and services such as the X8/9/10/11 have served Cramlington for years where there's been a train link. For people in Bedlington, they'd first have to get down to Bedlington Station. There's also all the local links these services provide currently, which can't be replicated on the train (not everything is about commuting to Newcastle). You'd be surprised at how many short hop trips are made on the X21, for example.

Aye don't dispute but not think they might drop the X21 and X22 down to every 3p minutes for example and integrate them with the 1/2 better so you'd effectively have a 15 minute bus service in most parts anyway it's arguably better than 5 buses an hour which don't really work together. 

I don't know why but I have a feeling they might drop one of the X10 or X11 and just have one route doing it every 20 minutes throughout. Wouldn't be surprised if the 43/X8/X9 are meddled with aswell would help changeovers if the 43 are based at Blyth. 

Cramlington's train service is dire in comparison to this though to be fair. Always been an after thought imo. 

Who knows though - anything could happen tbh but I think the impact might be big personally. I'd walk 15 minutes to catch the train over the X7 personally even known timewise it'll be similar but it's the reliability factor of it. The X7 is attrocious at peak times so you can't really trust it.