(6 hours ago)Rob44 wrote I have a plan to stop this happening in the future. make the x10 terminate at gateshead all the time and you wouldn't have this problem!
Not sure that's a good idea mind. A better idea would be regulate things at Eldon Square so if an X10 is 30 minutes late you'd pull a bus from a frequent service and send that through with the late bus dropping into the slot of the frequent service when it can.
It's basically what Arriva does at Ashington with the 57/57A usually.