(29 Dec 2020, 1:03 pm)Jimmi wrote Many of the breakdowns occurred on Newcastle bound journeys so many ended up being round trips dropped bunking the number of journeys not ran up, the other issue is if a bus goes down then the driver is stuck with the broken down bus so even if there's another bus avaliable, there may not be a driver to drop into the route to pick a journey up.

I'd say this is still a fairly regular number of breakdowns to occur in one 24 hour period for a depot, it just so happened all cancelled journeys were posted via the company's social medias, you'll get similar numbers if you go through say, the GNE Facebook on any given day or any other firm that regularly posts service disruptions. 

(29 Dec 2020, 5:57 pm)Storx wrote It's not the Gemini's / Pulsars that are the problem at Blyth. It's the minibuses which are the problem, the same as Ashington.

1760 / 1766 / 1773 have all been off the road for over a week now and 2816 has seemed to have developed a fault today aswell resulting 1401 / 1402 / 1501 being on locals, it was worse yesterday. It leaves all Geminis being out pretty much every day with barely any time to do maintenence without dropping runs.

It's the same at Ashington where all 3 Solos are off the road and a MPD has somehow ended up on the X14 today with a decker, an Omnicity and a Streetlite on the 57/57A. (The other Streetlite being off the road).

 Oh and btw might want to check Riverside depot out as it's been much worse there today. Just saying. 

I was reading this last night, but was too tired to respond. 
The way operators and tocs use social media to outline and detail disruption has been a bone of contention for a while now. 
The lack of clarity or detail is one which frustrates me. 

In the first screenshot, I've outlined two 'non-runners' this morning from GNE.
In my mind, there should be some sort of information about the next portion of the drivers duty. For example, if that 27 isn't running, does that mean there's going to be a gap in a return leg or on the 26? Passengers seeing that tweet about the 27 may not understand or appreciate the knock-on effect. 
Ditto with the 78. What are the implications for those travelling between South Stanley and Leadgate or Consett? If they can get to the bus station at Stanley, will there be a 78 from there or are they going to need to look at other options?

In the second screenshot, you can see a thread outlining information about issues on the network. Whilst there is a lot of information missing, I do find the connected tweets useful. 

A couple of years back, I was doing a bit of work with VTEC and had a lot of dealings with their innovation team in York. Apart from it being like Q's office from the James Bond films, there was a lot going on. I was given early access to a version of their train mapper tool and in the summer of 2017 used it fully for the first time. Needless to say, it was when I was travelling with Mrs C and the three C's and there was a boat-load of disruption across the ECML. 
I've shared some of the feedback in an extract of an email I sent them.

There were all sorts of phonecalls and meetings following on from my email and the feedback I provided and some tweaks were eventually made.
Either way, there was still the need to use multiple sources as not all of the information was contained within the one source. 
A bit like the GNE and Northern examples above.