(14 Jan 2015, 2:51 pm)gtom wrote There's a few direct Hexham-Newcastle runs for the football on Saturday night.
Yes, the X84/X85 doesn't run late Saturday (Newcastle arr 18:40/ dep 18:50) or all day Sunday (just a couple of positioning runs for the short 74A to Matfen).
They could use the TEN (or the 685).