(05 Dec 2023, 3:53 pm)idiot wrote Ahh back in the 19th Century with no buses after 7pm on 24th and 31st.

That's pretty normal, though.  Worse is that they pull the buses off from the termini quite a while before the "end of service", so if you're trying to get INTO the centre, you've got no chance unless you start quite early.  I got caught out by that one a few years ago, trying to get in from Wallsend, only watch a series of services turn up, disgorge passengers, and then head off NIS - I eventually realised that I was stuffed, and ended up walking from Wallsend back to Heaton.  (At least it wasn't too far!)