(13 Jul 2014, 11:56 am)Tom wrote Used it yesterday from the Metrocentre to Birtley. The driver knew what my pass was (Nexus CAT) for once, and a lot of the passengers seemed to be fare paying. The lass in front of me was charged £2.30 to Birtley, which is 90p cheaper than GNE! There was about twenty passengers all together which is fairly good.
Then I got the X2 to Newcastle which was running 15 minutes late, and I was the only passenger on until Harlow Green. Not good enough really.
It'll be one of those services that doesn't have a set amount of passengers - it'll completely fluctuate. Services X22 and X88 are quite similar too, from what I've seen of them arriving and departing at Metrocentre.
I also suspect that service 307 may be quite similar, given that you've seen it with very few passengers but aureolin has seen the opposite.