(19 Jan 2022, 2:34 pm)Thomas12 wrote Ah okay sorry, I understand what you are saying now. I believe the 1 is subsidised between Whitley Bay and North Shields on an evening too, but I'm not 100% sure on that.  

I agree with your point, especially an operator like Gateshead Central Taxis. There seems to be a bus missing from the evening/Sunday 41/41A every time I try to catch it, to the point where I've just given up. Hopefully they manage to win them back in March but I'm very doubtful about that.

Yeah I know, just found a document (see below) and the 1 is subsidised in the evening and mornings aswell, appears to be the full route aswell.

(19 Jan 2022, 2:37 pm)Dan wrote Some services receive deminimis funding, so there isn't a formal tender and the operator provides the local authority with a price without going through the formal procurement process. I think you'll find a lot of Arriva and Stagecoach services receive deminimis funding - from memory there has been an FOI request in the past to Nexus confirming details of all contracts including those with deminimis funding.

Evening journeys on service 53 are secured, and indeed Nexus had (until they withdrew all tenders for March 2022) actually put out a tender to operate the 53 on an evening this year. Hourly departures at 20:24, 21:24 and 22:24 from North Shields, and 20:25, 21:25 and 22:25 from Cramlington (with the final departures currently at 23:11 from Cramlington and 23:24 from North Shields cancelled).

Interesting, always thought it was odd how some didn't go for tender, just found a document with all the routes - https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/6...sthrough=1 and there's some right surprises on there.

The 20 between South Shields and Sunderland during the week in the evening is a surprise tbh. Infact quite a lot of the Sunderland network seems to be subsidised at nights, assuming these are won in the same way.

Didn't realise the 51/51A (Arriva) was a fully subsidised route either. Mind I'm surprised the 46/52/54 Arriva aren't on there though.