(23 Aug 2020, 4:36 pm)citaro5284 wrote I suppose with operators still accepting each others tickets, could someone say catch a 21 to Durham and then onto an Arriva bus from there?

The last Arriva 6 runs at 23:25, so you'd have to catch the 22:20 21 from Newcastle, arriving into Durham at 23:16. So that'd be getting into Bishop at basically midnight. Arriva might be updating their timetables soon to run it later, but at the minute they haven't.

With the old timetable, on a Friday you'd be able to leave Newcastle at 22:15 and arrive into Bishop at 23:30.
Or, what I'd sometimes do is get the 23:15 from Newcastle and get into Bishop at 00:30, then have a nice walk home.
Granted, I'd often be the only one on board so I can see why they'd drop it.