547 on Prudhoe shuttle - running to schedule (and, empty when I saw it between 13:00 and 13:40), but 6078 TEN from Newcastle was running 15 minutes late so passengers for the closed section west of Dr Syntax would have missed the shuttle.

What can you do, though, when the shuttle has to interface with TENs in both directions?

Oh - the TENs in both directions (12:30 from Corbridge and 13:40 from Prudhoe) could have done with a wash - unable to see out of the side windows, and it's unlikely that the dirt was from today (not raining AFAIK).