(19 Jan 2024, 7:27 pm)Storx wrote Brexit will be the red tape. Problems with getting migrants from Europe who used to do a lot of that sort of work.

Personally I think coaches are underutilised in England, there's certain routes ie. X10, X15, X21 (GNE), 253 (Scotland), 685 and X93 which questionably should be them anyway even if they competed against the train partly.

Routes like:
R1 (253/X15): Edinburgh - Haddington - Dunbar - Eyemouth - Berwick - Belford - Alnwick - Morpeth - Newcastle - Durham - Newton Aycliffe - Darlington - Croft - Northallerton - Ripon - Harrogate - Leeds

R2 (X21/X74/Unserved): Edinburgh - Galashiels - Melrose - St Boswells - Jedburgh - Otterburn - Belsay - Ponteland - Newcastle Airport - Newcastle - Durham - Spennymoor - Bishop Auckland

R3 (685 + some Cumbria service(s)): Newcastle - Hexham - Haydon Bridge - Haltwhistle - Brampton - Carlisle - Cockermouth - Workington - Whitehaven - Barrow

R4 (X10/X93/some EY services): Newcastle - Peterlee - Stockton - Middlesbrough - Guisborough - Whitby - Scarborough - Filey - Bridlington - Hull

R5 (X10/28/unserved) : Newcastle - Peterlee - Stockton - Middlesbrough - Stokesley - Thirsk - Easingwold - York - Tadcaster - Leeds

It would be much better than what we've got now than conventional buses which keep breaking every 5 years as they're not fit for purpose.

I didn't really want this to turn into another fantasy booking thread (before others pitch in!), but what you've suggested aren't coach services.

Your R1 for example; you'd spend best part of the day doing that by coach, whilst losing the will to live, when there's a train along most of that route up to every 30 minutes, if not less.

Megabus run a Glasgow - Edinburgh - Haggerston Castle - Newcastle service, which, even with those limited stops, takes almost 4 hours...

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