(11 hours ago)220631612 wrote I feel like this is cheating a little given they started at the railway station in Ashington. A fairer journey would’ve been to start from somewhere in the Town Centre. Also notice how they didn’t do a race into Newcastle where the bus stands a chance of beating the train in the peak. 07:35-08:30 on the X20, compared to 07:37-08:15 on the train. Obviously it would be fully dependent on what part of Newcastle you were heading too but the train really doesn’t save that much, even less so off peak

The difference is the train gets in at 08.15. The bus might get in at 8.30, or 8.40, or 8.50. There's no obstacles on a train.

If you start work/uni at 9am, unless you have a very generous boss or work directly next to Haymarket, that's not particularly an ideal time with traffic and that's talking from experience from someone used to bus to university with a similar timed bus and changed to getting a lift to the Metro as it was too unreliable. Could literally wake up at the same time, I would've had too to catch a reliable bus, or just risk it which most people did.

That's before discussing the next train is due in at 8.42 anyway, which is the busy one.