(03 Nov 2024, 8:00 pm)PH - BQA wrote It would seem pretty inconvenient for Ashington to operate the X9, there'd likely need to be remote reliefs for each break and there are no other services which it could realistically interwork with.
Agreed in a way but something is going to have to go as I don't believe there's enough space for all the 43/44/45 boards at Blyth and it seems like the X7/X8/X10/X11 are interworking as of tomorrow.
The 2/X9 could interwork at Blyth though. I'm not sure whether it's just a complete co-incidence but the times are all aligned up from start of service til around 5pm for it do it tomorrow, if they wanted. Be a 4 hour 45 minute or so round trip if I'm right so would work.