Service changes and improvements from Sunday 1 September 2024.
3 months ago
We are thrilled to announce further improvements to the region’s bus services from Sunday 1 September 2024. Funded by the North East Combined Authority’s Bus Service Improvement Plan, these improvements will see more frequent services on our Tyne Valley Ten 10/10A/10B and Angel 21 services.
There will also be some changes to services Q3, 12, 28S, 58, 327, X31, X70, X71, X72, X73 and X78 from the same date.
Tyne Valley Ten 10/10A/10B | Newcastle – Metrocentre – Blaydon – Crawcrook – Hexham/Prudhoe/Greenside/Blackhall Mill
On Monday to Saturday daytimes buses will increase in frequency, operating up to every 12 minutes between Crawcrook and Newcastle.
The number of journeys every hour on service 10A between Greenside and Newcastle will be doubled in most hours of the daytime, Monday to Saturday. Journeys from Blackhall Mill will continue to operate via The Folly, with the extra daytime journeys operating direct from Greenside to Crawcrook via Woodside Lane and Greenside Road.
Service 10 will continue to operate up to twice every hour between Hexham and Newcastle, and service 10B will continue to operate hourly between Tyneview Retail Park and Newcastle.
Evening and Sunday journeys will continue to operate up to every 20 minutes between Crawcrook and Newcastle, with hourly journeys on each of services 10, 10A and 10B.
Angel 21 | Newcastle – Gatesead – Birtley – Chester-le-Street – Durham – Brandon
On Monday to Saturday daytimes buses will increase in frequency, operating up to every 7 minutes between Chester-le-Street and Newcastle.
Buses will continue to extend from Chester-le-Street to Durham and Brandon up to every 30 minutes, and will continue to operate up to every 20 minutes in the evening, and up to every 15 minutes on Sunday daytimes between Chester-le-Street and Newcastle.
12 | Newcastle – Blaydon – Winlaton
Most trips on service 12 will need to be moved to depart from Stand A at Eldon Square because of the frequency increase on the Tyne Valley Ten services. Some departures will need to be retimed by 5 minutes to reduce congestion in the bus station.
On Mondays to Fridays, the following journeys will depart from Eldon Square five minutes earlier than they do now: 16:05, 16:35, 20:05. The following journeys will depart Eldon Square five minutes later than they do now: 08:25, 08:55, 09:25, 17:35. From Winlaton Bus Station, the following journeys will run five minutes earlier than they do now: 16:50, 17:20, 18:19. The 20:36 journey from Winlaton will run four minutes earlier at 20:32.
On Saturdays, the 19:10 journey from Eldon Square will run five minutes earlier at 19:05 and the return journey from Winlaton will run five minutes earlier at 17:36.
On Sundays, most daytime journeys will depart one minute earlier from Eldon Square.
Q3 | Brunton Park – Gosforth – Jesmond – City Centre – Quayside – Ouseburn – Wallsend
From 1 September 2024, stops within the Great Park estate (west of the A1) will no longer be served by Go North East; Stagecoach is taking over alternative services within this part of Great Park from Sunday 1 September 2024.
Our Q3 QuayCity service will be amended to operate between Wallsend, Quayside, Newcastle City Centre, Jesmond, Regent Centre, Gosforth, Brunton Park and part of Great Park east of the A1. The revised route will continue to provide frequent services to the Warkworth Woods part of Great Park, as well as introducing new links to Brunton Park and Polwarth Drive. Nexus are funding some evening journeys on the Q3 between St. Peter’s Basin and Brunton Park so that the service will continue to operate early until late, seven days a week.
Service Q3 will continue to be the only direct bus link to Quayside from the North of the city and passengers can still travel to Regent Centre (for onward bus and metro connections) as well as Osborne Road in Jesmond on most journeys.
At peak times, a new Q3X service will operate directly via Great North Road, improving journey times for commuters.
East Gateshead Rider 58 | Newcastle – Gateshead – Felling – Fewster Square – Heworth – Follingsby
There will be some minor changes to times of journeys before 09:00 on Monday to Friday.
DFDS 327 | Port of Tyne – Newcastle
Working in partnership with DFDS, the afternoon journeys from Newcastle Central Station to Port of Tyne will be retimed to operate 15 minutes earlier to ensure punctual departures of the daily ferry service to Amsterdam. Buses will also now operate non-stop between the Port and Newcastle and so will no longer serve the stop at Cradlewell.
X31 | Newcastle – Sunniside – Stanley
To better space departures from Stand D at Eldon Square, the 17:53 departure on service X31 on Mondays to Fridays will be retimed to depart at 17:55.
X70/X71/X71A/X72 | Newcastle – Sunniside – Burnopfield – Consett/Stanley
Following feedback from users of these bus services, there will be some minor changes to early evening services from Newcastle towards Sunniside and Burnopfield to improve connections from Gateshead and Team Valley.
On Mondays to Fridays, the current 19:10 service X71 from Newcastle will be retimed to depart at 19:03 and will instead run as a service X71A to Consett via Gateshead and Team Valley instead of via Whickham. There will continue to be departures at 18:58 and 19:25 from Eldon Square towards Dunston and Whickham on services X30 and X31. The current 17:55 departure from Consett on service X71 will be retimed to depart at 17:52 and will run three minutes earlier throughout. On Saturdays, the current 19:15 service X71 will be retimed to 19:05 and also operate as an X71A.
To better space early evening buses from Newcastle and Gateshead towards Sunniside and Burnopfield, the current 18:15 departure on service X72 from Stanley will depart at 18:30 (18:25 on Saturdays) and run fifteen minutes later throughout, and the 19:15 departure from Newcastle will depart at 19:30 and run fifteen minutes later throughout Monday to Saturday.
On Saturday mornings, the 09:08 departure from Eldon Square on service X71 will be retimed to 09:05 and operate three minutes earlier throughout.
X73 | Newcastle – Metrocentre – Annfield Plain – Stanley
To better space departures from Eldon Square Stand D, most departures after 10:00 on Monday to Saturday will operate up to the three minutes later than they do now.
X78 | Newcastle – Kingston Park – Ponteland – Darrass Hall
The evening journeys on service X78 that Go North East operates on behalf of Nexus will be revised to operate via Kingston Park via Brunton Lane, Windsor Way and Brunton Road. This is to match the revised route of the daytime journeys provided by Stagecoach will change from the same date.
28S | Pelton – Ouston – Lord Lawson of Beamish Academy
Regrettably, another operator will run this service from the start of the 24/25 academic year.
933, 941 and 937 | Chester-le-Street –Team Valley – Metrocentre
Regrettably, Service 933 and 941 will be ran by another operator after 1 September 2024.
937
Following Nexus contract changes, the 06:57 journey from Chester-le-Street to Team Valley and the 17:08 journey from Team Valley to Chester-le-Street will be ran by another operator.
392 | Tynemouth – Wallsend
Regrettably, Service 392 will be ran by another operator after 1 September 2024.