Yellow 5210 on x85 from Newcastle arrived Hexham 25 (?) minutes late and withdrawn from service.
14:02 X84 'didn't run' (despite several passengers for Ovingham waiting, and also despite there being a 'spare' Tynedale Express vehicle parked up at the top of the bus station.
The spare driver who was standing waiting to take over the X85/X84 @ 13:55 'disappeared' . . .
I can understand regulating and withdrawing a bus that was so late that it couldn't catch up (the X84 alternates with the X85), but why not dispatch the 'spare'?
