At some point the North East transport network as a whole may have to join the 21st Century and have a decent network on Christmas public holidays (at least for the cities, skeleton at least!) especially since Boxing Day is now a major shopping event and we've of course got football on NYD with our teams in the region having either 52,000 or 45,000 needing to get somewhere

I don't see why they run a service on Easter Sunday when everything is closed yet there's utter horror about New Years Day and Boxing Day. Yes they deserve the time off, everyone does but there's millions of people in 'service' jobs working today. Nurses, pharmacists, doctors, retail, leisure...etc etc etc. If you don't like unsociable hours then sorry, don't enter the industry!

On a side note I do think its woefully bad form that yet again GNE aren't adding at least an extra day to monthly or annual Buzzfares considering there's no service for 2 days. Stagecoach and Arriva are offering good customer service.

And finally my condolences to whoever operated GNE's Facebook page today....