imo if the X10 isn't making money then it shouldn't exist. Bar Norton and Dalton Park, literally every town on the route has a railway station (Peterlee being Horden).

Routes like it just shouldn't exist in a proper functional transport network; Britain being Britain though doesn't have that though so we have trains vs bus vs car and the car always wins.

Now public transport vs car is a whole different ball game.

You have just have to look at crap like Northumberland for that nonsense because in a functional transport network you'd have a bus sitting at Newsham, Bebside, Bedlington Station and Ashington waiting to pick up people from the train to do the last mile - even the yanks get that and that's not a compliment. Instead we have Arriva refusing to serve the station outright.

Seaham, Horden, Cramlington, Morpeth, Alnmouth and Billingham stations are all the same.