(10 hours ago)Andreos1 wrote And that whacky pizza brand. 

But they apparently stopped it as there wasn't enough through traffic to sustain it. 
Hence the diversion via Rainton Bridge in an effort to boost numbers.

It didn't really work when it was under the 'Pronto' brand at least, not much through traffic from the Bishop end and the consequence of its existence was only one direct Bishop to Newcastle bus an hour with the X21, was certainly a much better use of resources to restore the Bishop to Newcastle link to half hourly on the X21.