(13 Jul 2026, 11:20 pm)tyresmoke wrote This is all great but like you say the X10 is only ~30% outside the NEMSA area … which means to continue running it would have to be an NEMSA franchised service - do they necessarily need an express to Teesside that mainly (not entirely but maybe 70% of the market) benefits Tees Valley residents travelling to Newcastle rather than the NEMSA residents that are paying towards it? They could truncate it at Peterlee, save a fair bit of cash and not worry 95% of the NEMSA users. 

This is one of the worries I have.