(05 Jan 2023, 9:42 pm)omnicity4659 wrote First Travel Solutions (Lumo/TPE), Arriva Road Transport Services (CrossCountry/Northern) and Stagecoach Solutions (LNER) will get operators from anywhere in the country to assist. Arriva usually end up having to source vehicles from a lot further away.

That's assuming they can actually source anybody! There was one weekend in autumn 2022 where Rail Replacements on multiple Northern services were cancelled at the last minute including parts of the North East owing to lack of willing operators with the weekend prior at least half in the NE were provided by Mario Coach Travel based in Burnley.