(23 Jun 2025, 7:43 pm)col87 wrote As for the point of Beamish I actually agree it would be good to get easier public transport there but I think like a few other locations in the North East ( those been diggerland, Lightwater Valley, Flamingoland ) it’s one for the coach companies to up there game with by offering cheap day trips to these places as I don’t see it been viable for buses as you generally go early and come back around mid to late afternoon so not really places people generally go to thoughout the day.  

Aye agree with you there, and it's why I kind of think this is the route that might just work as buses to the Metrocentre have the same problem in a way as who wants to go to the Stanley or CLS from the Metrocentre at 9am in the morning on a Saturday. 

Beamish is just along the road from Stanley so instead of a dead bus from the Metrocentre to Stanley, why not run a bus to Beamish instead, then run it dead back to Stanley to do the next Metrocentre bus which then reverses later in the day as there's the same issue where no-one wants to go to the Metrocentre at 4pm when there's no return bus so why not pop along to Beamish instead and run direct to Newcastle / Gateshead / Metrocentre or wherever you wanted to run it to.