The capacity just isn’t there to add local train stations on the East Coast Mainline. At best you might find somewhere for the hourly transpennine service to stop without causing too much of a time penalty, but that’s only hourly and no one would say that was acceptable as a ‘hub’ and besides, until the Leamside line is reopened (which would be a decade away even if it got approval), there are no alternatives for rerouting freight trains. So there will always be a need for buses to run through to Newcastle and I really don’t get the obsession on this forum for making a form of public transport even less attractive for the very people we need to encourage, car drivers. Too many enthusiasts think with their enthusiast head on and forget that Joe Public values ease of use over being forced to change modes for the benefit of nobody but the operators. Make it needlessly complicated and they just won’t bother at all, which is one reason why Go North East’s hub and spoke model has been such an unmitigated disaster.