(22 Jul 2022, 1:49 pm)Dan wrote In other news, I believe Arriva North East are going onto emergency timetables shortly due to their staffing situation getting increasingly worse, which will include services 22/23/24 all running hourly.
According to Arriva's website it's just the 22/23 between Peterlee and Sunderland reduced to hourly on each service. The only other affected service is the 49/49A reducing from every 15 to 20 minutes combined. You can see the very short article here - the key phrase being "We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause to your journey, these changes are put in place to ensure we can provide the best possible service."
I suppose Arriva also deserve some credit here for reducing services that have alternatives provided by GNE (compared to at one point when the 56 from Durham to Bishop was reduced to hourly with no other options available).