(10 Jul 2025, 10:32 pm)PH - BQA wrote I can’t be bothered to reply to the constant goalpost shifting, so I will leave it at this:

It is a 4 minute walk from Morpeth station to Mafeking Roundabout - a stop served by all Morpeth bus express services. 

There is constant evidence that you don’t really know what you’re talking about on this subject, yet you continue to make increasingly incorrect statements.

Edited to be more friendly as I was cranky last night because of the heat as an understatement. 

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To be fair though, you're moving the goals posts talking about Morpeth which has been around for years so isn't really comparable and the buses are very much different because of the extensions to Alnwick, Amble and so on which are sizable communities as it is. The X20 is another, which again has extensions North and also serves the side of Ashington furthest from the train.

I see the X7, almost daily, running around with single figures at the Blyth side (beyond Seghill) yet every train is dropping off double number of passengers and there's now even a van selling coffee's in the morning and all the local groups are people commenting how much they love the train and don't have to rely on the [fit negative word here] Arriva bus. The other side is busier though, thank to the extra passengers from Quorum since the Four Lane End links have effectively been killed and the new housing estates from the Gosforth Park so to an extent there's probably parts where we're both right.

ie. for the X22, there's been 6 people lost from the Ashington area, but they've been gained from Bedlington and the new massive housing estate at the West side of Cramlington so overall there's no impact.

Also I explicitly mentioned Stobhill, so not sure where that goal post is being moved. Obviously you could be obtuse and mention the 43, but no-one sane is travelling that end to end. For the record, Morpeth station also has 500k passengers a year - so someone is using it...