A day out to Hexham today. Morpeth Ticket Office was closed again (as usual) due to staff sickness and shortages, though I was intrigued to note 7 Northern staff deployed at Hexham, which does in my view raise difficult questions for Northern to answer. Passing through Prudhoe, I noticed a bus pulling in to the station turning circle, in what Northumberland Council rather extravagantly call their “Transport Interchange” (it’s just a bus stop in the station turning circle). But why can’t Morpeth have that, I mused? The only explanation I can think of is that Prudhoe, unlike Morpeth, is fortunate enough to have its bus services provided by someone other than Arriva.
