It would be interesting to know how much business the ticket offices at Dewsbury, Selby and Stalybridge do after the morning peak. I can see some of the ticket offices being moved to a single shift, say 6.00-lunchtime, as a lot of staffed ticket offices in the south east are.
Not exactly an ideal time for TPE to be trying to make economies, particularly on diesel costs, as timetables changing from week to week is going to make it hard to put a plan together. They probably have more 185s than they need with the reduced Manchester-Leeds service level.