Arriva have been a total shambles since the closure of Jesmond.
The 51 which was previously a very reliable service had a service around every 3/4 hours on Saturday. That is until the later runs which are secured by Nexus seemed to run fine.
To add to this, very few 43 services made it to Morpeth - in fact very few operated at all (2hr gaps in departures from Haymarket at times).
There is probably more that I haven't picked up on. Pretty sure most people could see this coming, but it's pretty disgraceful.
RE: Disruptions and driver shortages