(11 Nov 2014, 5:01 pm)citaro5284 wrote Christmas/New Year Service levels

http://www.simplygo.com/news/christmas2014/

**Even beat Michael to it**

I am somewhat disappointed that there isn't an earlier service on the 56 from Sunderland to Newcastle, and the morning runs all start from Concord instead. I had the misfortune of having to endure the first 56 of the day last year towards Newcastle and it was packed right from the second stop into the route... Whilst I understand it'd be a commercial risk taking on earlier services (as the company's costs are significantly higher than usual), the data from last year could perhaps have showed it may have been worth it. That said, the double decked vehicles which will be allocated to the service will undoubtedly help with easing loadings.
Not sure what the other services were like on the first couple of runs - could be a similar story, not sure.

Mind, beating Michael to posting a link to the website was an achievement like.  

(11 Nov 2014, 5:03 pm)Michael wrote GNE need to sort the app out,according to them the 56 is currently good...

I honestly don't think that part is updated, unless it's exceptional circumstances. I've certainly not seen it updated once and I touched upon this in another post elsewhere on the forum recently. I do hope that AVL/Real Time Information will assist with keeping this updated though.