(25 Apr 2016, 10:43 am)scania driver wrote The idea of running additional late evening services from Whitby, or indeed Scarborough, is just incredulous! I had the misfortune to have to catch a train back to Hartlepool on Saturday last, a train that had originated in Whitby and was just an extension of the revellers who clearly have no respect or interest in the wider travelling public or the crews who have to suffer these services. Imagine then just how a single crewed decker full of these morons would fare.

On any late bus service there's the possibility of a few rowdy passengers, unfortunately, but the Whitby area doesn't suffer more of these than around Teesside or anywhere else that has some later buses.

The fact is there isnt the demand : If there was enough passengers to fill a double decker at 9, 10 , 11 pm at night, they'd be running them.

I used to work in Whitby on an evening and got the 5 back to Loftus at either 9.10 or 11.10pm....these were the last two buses, and both had very few people on them, even in the summer. Bums on seats is what it all boils down to.