(16 Jun 2022, 8:37 am)busmanT wrote The Go North East 25 is a bit thin on the ground today, three consecutive departures from Newcastle cancelled this afternoon 1525, 1605, 1635:
From Newcastle: 07:15, 08:55, 16:05, 17:35, 20:25. The 09:18 journey will start from Chester-le-Street at 10:16, the 15:25 journey will start from Chester-le-Street at 16:17, the 16:35 journey will start from Chester-le-Street at 17:27.
From Langley Park: 06:27, 07:13, 10:21, 17:29, 19:04. The 13:51 journey will only run as far as Chester-le-Street (arriving at 14:20), the 14:21 journey will only run as far as Chester-le-Street (arriving at 14:50), the 14:54 journey will only run as far as Chester-le-Street (arriving at 15:23), the 15:54 journey will only run as far as Chester-le-Street (arriving at 16:23).
From Chester-le-Street to Newcastle: 06:17
Two of the commuter runs into Newcastle cancelled too. Maybe services like the 25 are an easy target not to cover now, as they're not seen as doing 'well' financially, but will they be going forward?
I suppose the downside of contracting/providing secured services, is that the local authority will normally want some form of financial compensation or service credits where the service isn't ran. There's no where near that level of scrutiny on commercial services, as passengers are very much without a collective voice.
Also for the third day in a row, the 17.39 #50 from Durham has been cancelled, which is really poor. I normally use that or the one an hour earlier, and it's generally the same people on board each day, so it just goes to show that in doing so they're impacting the same users over and over.