(15 Jun 2014, 12:56 am)marxistafozzski wrote And when you try to get a name out of someone they come back with the daftest line in history
"If I tell you that, I will have to kill you"
Well, there could be that.
Getting back to the ad122 - GNE could have left it as a standalone service, leaving it alone from any integration with the company in the terms of passes etc.
Or, they could have tied the route into the existing network, accepted a range of tickets and dangled their corporate tentacles further into the Tyne Valley.
Comments on here by 'sources', potential passengers and residents living en route, indicate GNE chose the former and possibly the wrong option.