(15 Aug 2014, 4:40 pm)Kuyoyo wrote Unless you get the train, any trip by service bus or National Express would mean at least 2 nights in Hull to justify it.
The National Express is the Parks-operated 534. The Southbound departure leaves Newcastle at 1400 (Sunderland at 1430 and Middlesbrough at 1510) arriving in Hull at 1930. The return journey leaves Hull at 0735, arriving in Newcastle at 1250 (Middlesbrough at 1130 and Sunderland at 1215).
Coach to Leeds and then the x62 could be the quickest via road.
Can't imagine it to be any longer than the examples given.