(05 Jul 2022, 1:08 pm)busmanT wrote With all the services and journeys that the local authorities have bought back (mostly it seems from GNE) there isn’t much “shrinkification” in the end - let’s see what the timetables show when they appear.

I’m not too sure that’s correct really. In East Durham: 

• 55 Withdrawn - links to Sunderland from South Hetton reduced to 1ph on increased journey time, Doxford link removed also. 
  
• 62 Withdrawn - No link to Seaham from South Hetton and Easington (or Horden) + evening journeys Peterlee to Dalton Park not replaced, Princess Road left with no service. 
  
• 65 heavily cut back - Sunday service going two hourly, evening journeys scrapped. 
  
• 61 reduced - daytime to half hourly, instead of every 20 mins / Sunday buses now hourly 
  
• 60 small reduction - evening timetable on a Sunday is hourly + night buses withdraw. 
  

I’m sure others could do similar for other areas. Although I get the point the cuts perhaps aren’t as drastic as they might have been (and things such as the 60 night buses were a recent development) but there’s still some pretty impactful cut backs.