(19 Jan 2024, 10:54 pm)Adrian wrote 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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The thing is it wouldn't be about the end to end, it's about the inbetween, in particular Alnwick. Stagecoach's 10 in Scotland is probably the best example of a route running with coaches - https://bustimes.org/services/10-inverness-aberdeen

Infact that's doing well they've recently introduced 4 express services a day running as the M96. Personally the idea of sitting on a Estaban seat on a rattly Enviro 400 MMC going from Alnwick to Newcastle for 90 minutes is the definition of torture and it's not as if it serves anything in between - there probably should be a service bus that does mind so the likes of Swarland aren't unserved like currently but that's a different thread.

Long distance bus travel is poor, even Northumbria used to understand back in the 90's with their coach spec vehicles. If they ran a Class 156 from Newcastle to Edinburgh there'd be hell on but it's just the same really time wise.