(15 May 2017, 2:42 pm)Cock Robin wrote Why not?
And how do you know at 1929 that it won't have been taken off before midnight?

Maybe if you realised there has been some major changes with their evening operations in the last week, you might understand I was referring to the working pattern not the allocation.............

(15 May 2017, 5:36 pm)missedbus wrote I don't think this has anything to do with seeing the future, more that the board it was allocated to continued until midnight.

Indeed, there has been changes to Stockton's operations following the changes to the 38 last week, in that Middlesbrough area lates are now set up in the same way as Arriva's in that the driver picks up a bus at the start of their shift and keep it until they return to the depot at the end of their shift (except for the bus that does 39/38/12). The board in question previously did staff shuttles between half 6 and 20 to 8 when it did a 39 (which it still does), it now instead does the 37 out of Middlesbrough at half 6 and then parks up after that 39 before going back out half an hour later.