(19 Nov 2025, 11:22 am)PH - BQA wrote Ashington currently missing 7 of the 20 X21/X22 boards. At least one 1 hour gap in services which should run every 20 minutes.

X22 alone is missing 3 of the 7 buses, or in other words they’re dropping 43% of trips. The 0704/0729 (16 late starting, so pointless)/0809/0839/0939/1039/1059 trips have all been cancelled and it’s not even lunchtime.

This is all excluding the trips dropped due to late running because of the weather, too.

Two separate buses have also failed on the 777.

They’ve had months to rectify this and nothing is being done, a masterclass in incompetent management. I remember posts on here saying that engineering management have changed - clearly it’s made zero difference, as the standards have got no better.

It’s getting worse. Currently only 3/7 X22 boards out on the road, and only 9/13 X21/35s. 

Multiple one hour gaps in the X22 in particular. 

The allocations also don’t help - 7528, 7533, and 7554 all on the X18 today while MMCs crawl around on the 57. 

Operational supervisors clearly massively out of their depth, even in good weather they’re questionable but they continued to send X15s up/down the A1 this morning despite the journeys an hour previous being stuck. 

They chose to drop the 0704 X22 this morning, as usual, then sent the 0729 away late and it didn’t even make it to the second timing point resulting in a 70 minute gap in the morning peak.

Edit: 7528 has failed for the second day in a row on the X18, replaced by 1576. Yet another X22 missing.