(12 Jun 2023, 1:47 pm)Storx wrote Must admit I don't know the route too well, but I'm not surprised. It does seem to connect places which don't exactly have much of a connection. There's not exactly much at Sedgefield and/or Newton Aycliffe why people would exactly want to go between the two and there's tonnes of buses between Darlington and Newton Aycliffe and of course the X22 at the other end.
Loads of houses in Sedgefield and a huge employment site in Aycliffe.
The sort of thing that should attract people on to using the service.
It uses pretty much the quickest route between the two (as a car would), but clearly isn't attractive and doesn't go right in to the industrial estate.
https://aycliffebusinesspark.co.uk/ 10,000 employees apparently.
I've only ever used it between Peterlee and Sedgefield (missed an X10 and worked out there wasn't much of a wait between the X21 and X12 at Sedgefield).