But in the May timetable the Newcastle trains (802 worked) turn back at Victoria (40 minute layover), with the hourly Liverpool services linked through to Scarborough again (185s or Mk5As). This will 'save' 2 802s relative to today's timetable, where they spend 2 more hours going to Liverpool and back.
It's a little more complex than that.
Pre-Covid there was (in theory) both an hourly LIV-EDB and a MIA-NCL service. These ran ~15 mins apart from MCV-NCL.
In the current Covid timetable, those two are joined up into a LIV-NCL service, with a dwell at MCV to match up the paths.
In the May timetable, that was due to change to a LIV-YRK and a MCV-NCL service. In other words just keeping parts of the former services, but resulting in an additional 1tph between MCV-YRK compared to today.
However that has now reverted to the current position (LIV-NCL with a dwell at MCV).
Neither of these two positions are ideal - for obvious reasons - but the long term outcome, as part of the ECML recast and the MRTF consultation, is likely to be the split LIV-YRK/MCV-NCL pattern as was due to start in May.