(29 Oct 2025, 11:08 pm)solsburian wrote I agree that a review of the long distance Northumberland services should be looked at, perhaps with the County Council and the NECA. Ideally it should be a mix of catering to tourist and commuter traffic to and from Newcastle from Morpeth, Alnwick and Berwick with faster services and providing good local links for communities in between.

Yeah defininitely, mind I assume there's some technical reason why it can't but I'm really surprised the X18 to Berwick hasn't been bolted onto the X15 shorts by now.

It'd be interesting for a trivia question if there's a bus route in the country which has a longer double back (30 minutes). It just doesn't make sense, at all, imo. Surely it must be quicker to get off the X18 and hop on the X20 anyway if it hasn't gone because in typical UK transport the X20 leaves 3 minutes before the X18 gets there anyway...