(14 Sep 2023, 9:23 pm)Storx wrote That's what I thought, it seems to be the X7/X8/X9 and 306 which are really getting hit hard lately and are borderline unusable. Not been much mention of the 306 but there's a lot of peak time journeys being cancelled and good luck going the other way.

I have a feeling some of the Blyth issues are vehicle related as well as driver. If you take 7632 today, the 1720 306 does not run onto the 18:48 45 usually, and looking at previous days the 44/45 stint evidently comes from depot so I'm assuming there was no vehicle available for the driver on the 18:48 45?Similarly, this morning, 7606 appeared to fail on the 09:10 306 to Whitley Bay with nothing sent to replace it. It then made it about 1 stop on the 10:29 X9 before being replaced by 7629, then itself replaced 7506 on the X10/11.  

Shift wise, from the looks of it, journeys don't seem to get dropped until around the 9-10am mark, and I haven't seen any late evening journeys missing. It looks like they are prioritising covering journeys that most people rely on to get to work in the morning, and the last buses of the day, and then trying to spread resource as best as possible surrounding that.