(27 May 2023, 10:18 am)omnicity4659 wrote I think you're imagining a very worst case scenario in relation to the Northumberland Line reopening.

The majority of custom during the day is between towns, not to Newcastle. NL is focused on Newcastle passengers and those who can drive...

I disagree personally. People just don't go to town as the bus goes via Cramlington so why bother going further if you don't need to.

If there's a train that goes direct to Newcastle, why bother with the bus at all, and just go straight to Newcastle in the same time roughly.

The X7/X8/X9 are borderline unusable lately because of Sandy Lane / Matthew Bank so unless something changes fast, all 3 will be impacted massively.

Some people are underestimating the damage the trainline will do but I'm going to flip the coin and say I honestly couldn't give two hoots about the buses, there's a new train line that gets me into Newcastle in 20 minutes or so every 30 minutes regardless to time vs from 40 minutes via bus and that from is generous as it's more like 90 minutes at peak times lately