(Yesterday, 12:48 am)solsburian wrote This is the wrong thread for it but while Ashington's reliability remains very poor, perhaps a ray of light with the new management is that on NUFC home matches it seems that Arriva Northumbria are running duplicate busses (at least at Blyth depot).
In fairness, even through DB times they always tended to put dupes on for home matches during the week. Usually Ashington did an X21 or X22, and an X18 - they no longer do the latter as there’s a later X15 now.
Blyth always seemed to be however many drivers they could get to stay back, but there always tended to be an X10/11 dupe and a coast from memory.