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16 June 2020 09:46

Help tackle loneliness with a Virtual Chatty Bus catch up

This week it’s Loneliness Awareness Week and we know that loneliness can affect us all at some point in our lives, particularly at times like this during the coronavirus pandemic.

5 May 2020 18:18

Enjoy your video conferencing journeys with a Go North East virtual background

Bus fans, are you missing travelling on our lovely buses? Sit back, relax and enjoy your video conferencing journeys with one of our virtual bus backgrounds.

26 September 2019 10:41

Dog Friendly Days Out with Go North East

At Go North East we know that your four-legged friends love a day out as much as you do. We've teamed up with local blogger Rachel Kershaw from Life in Geordieland, so you and your pooch can have some 'pawesome' adventures by bus.

13 August 2019 12:57

Explore North Tyneside with Go North East

We asked local blogger Rachel Kershaw, from Life in Geordieland, to tell us where she loves spending time in North Tyneside and she has created a list of her top ten favourite places.

On the Go since 1913

Around 175,000 journeys are made on Go North East bus services every day to travel around this wonderful region. Travelling to work or education, to visit friends and family, to have a night out, or to visit one of the region's many tourist and leisure attractions.

For over 100 years, Go North East has connected the region's towns and villages with the cities of Newcastle, Durham and Sunderland and currently operates across Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, County Durham and into Tees Valley.

Employing over 2,000 local people, with a fleet of almost 700 buses and coaches and an annual turnover of £100m, the company is the regional subsidiary of the Go-Ahead Group plc, one of the UK's leading providers of passenger transport.