(09 Aug 2021, 6:20 am)54APhotography wrote November 2019, and it was a disaster. They failed to supply enough buses, the Sunday afternoon was just chaos with christmas shoppers, and double deckers ex Bewick Street were full and standing on both decks. when darkness fell and after driver changes, two E400s got lost between Gateshead Interchange and Heworth! They have not bid for metro work since.

These are the exact words in response from one of those Arriva drivers who worked that Sunday in response:

Nothing to do with the roadworks near the station and the fact it took me 4 hours to do half a trip....

Nexus are the ones to blame - timetable, as usual, a work of fiction…..
As for Arriva not bidding for any Metro work since - after that farce, would you?