(22 Apr 2018, 4:32 am)Andreos1 wrote I'm not saying the X1 definitely won't get new vehicles. 
I just struggle to see the financials stack up.
It is the same with the last few runs on a night off Newcastle.
There's usually very few cash fares atall from experience and having been in the unfortunate position to have to pay a cash fare a few times, you can understand why.
It makes very little financial sense to run those services. However, it wouldn't do them many favours to cancel those runs, as inbound traffic earlier in the night would likely suffer.

With the QR codes being introduced, is there now not more scope to measure actual passenger numbers on a service?

Three people may buy day tickets on services X, Y and Z, but then if they immediately change onto the X1 is that not what should be looked at?