If you really want picture of how bad this situation actually is, I seen 5 Angel Streetdecks parked up in Eldon Square at 8am this morning 2 of which were in service on an inbound and outbound journey with other 3 not in service having run light from the depot into Newcastle to start service from there as past me on my way into town from Low Fell. 

For the length time some of those vehicles sat there you could potentially of operated 3 journeys from Chester-Le-Street to Newcastle and what is more interesting the fact these journey's from starting from Newcastle this morning were not even documented on journey cancellation page on the Go North East website, infact there was no documented cancellations at all for the 21 today so what happened one wonders.