(05 Feb 2022, 10:01 am)Andreos1 wrote What were the match day attendances on those previous Saturdays vs the expected attendance today?

Not a vast difference - 32k on 22 January vs 34k today.

If Go North East are making decisions based on previous weeks' data, then clearly an assumption is being made that the 2k difference in expected attendance today is not enough to cause over-loading issues on the 78 today.

We'll find out later - thankfully bustimes enables us to see this!

(05 Feb 2022, 10:05 am)Storx wrote Not sure what Stagecoach has to do with this.

Customer: I had to wait for over an hour as I couldn't get on the 20.
GNE: Stagecoach only ran single deckers on the E1/E2/E3.
Customer: Okay...?

Not sure that scenario would ever happen - what's the relevance? This thread is an enthusiasts discussion and in this discussion I am drawing a comparison against other operators, who similarly have decreased the frequency of a service, and not upgraded capacity today on a match day. Like Go North East, Stagecoach may have made this decision based on data from previous weeks.