(10 Jul 2025, 9:20 pm)PH - BQA wrote Your initial point though was that Arriva "have nothing" left in T&W, where in reality they operate two of the best served corridors in the region (GNR and Coast Road). Evidently they see their offering as something of that value, and the majority of people will also move to simply buying 2x singles a day (if they aren't already).

Moving onto the train pricing, quite frankly you're continuing to compare apples to oranges. I remember this discussion being had prior to the line opening, and the prediction that the Arriva Northumbria network would be decimated. Posts to the contrary indicating that the Morpeth and Cramlington corridors are two of their strongest, and compete with trains, were palmed off by yourself. Maybe they know what they're doing with their pricing more than people on the internet?

3/6 of the stations aren't open yet, so I'm not sure you can make those comments as of yet, especially Bedlington which is right in the middle of the X21, which that and the X22 has already had multiple boards downgraded to single decker to benefit people in East Cleveland instead before this even opened...

Also Cramlington and Morpeth are not comparable at all, as it's an hourly service and for the case of Morpeth is miles away from the centre which is a place people actually want to go to, unlike Blyth and that's before going into the point the buses run beyond Morpeth anyway. Mind I'm still looking for that bus from Stobhill to Newcastle which doesn't take 2 weeks...