(2 hours ago)L469 YVK wrote 7401-06 I take it?

Whilst they've had more than a hard shift on the X93/X94 (arguably worse than 7453-56 on the 518/X18 and 6043-48 on the X9/X10) - GNE still use 6043-48 on the hilly 47 despite them previously getting hammered on the X9/X10, doing the 10/10A/10B and still having to cover for the gutless 5 litre tinpot hairdryers that GNE thought would be a good idea on the X9/X10

The 35 whilst having a few fast sections and the climb out of Morpeth, is quite a local route. No worse than the X5/X15 or 16/16A which are running on ex London / Lothian / GAG rubbish and have the hill climbs to contend with around Durham & Derwentside

The problem is there's also 7522/7524-33 which are equally crap which would be ideal for the 35 aswell.

There's no sensible route otherwise, and dumping them at Blyth isn't the answer either struggling on the expresses there instead.