(27 Oct 2020, 3:44 pm)Dan wrote Which is what I think you have seen Go North East starting to begin thinking about, with new 24-hour ticketing options and evening tickets (including group tickets).

As good as they may be, I'd argue that its only a small part of the evening and weekend offer. 
It's no good offering those tickets, if connections or services are limited, journeys need planning with military precision and punters can't use them effectively or in a manner which they don't feel as though they're getting vfm.

I've almost bought an evening ticket in the past.
As the last through X1 left before the event I was attending, finished, I didn't bother buying the ticket or using public transport at all.
Appreciate that is just me. But if the pattern or trend is repeated elsewhere with other services, then you can see why services would start to become less popular and run back to the depot earlier.