(18 Feb 2025, 7:40 pm)L469 YVK wrote Are two-way radios still used at GNE or are all comms now done via messaging using ticketer? 

I wonder how some of the "advice" would fare back in the days ot the Tait / Phillips radios which were quite loud too and could be heard by passengers!

I'm guessing there's absolutely no communication between depot/control and the drivers.
Purely based on observations this evening... 

Two 20's following each other out of Durham.
Plenty of time for depot/control to take control, plenty of time for one of them to drop NIS and bypass a section of the route.

Neither of them dropped off at Gilesgate. Neither dropped off at The Raintons. 
Guessing it stayed the same at Houghton too.