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  • Go North East has just the ticket to avoid Christmas chaos

    Last-minute Christmas shoppers can enjoy the gift of affordable, convenient and comfortable travel this festive season by hopping on the bus with Go North East, which is helping passengers to avoid the bedlam of the region’s roads.
    Journeying to all the North East’s retail hotspots, the award-winning bus company has a route to suit every taste - all without the season’s traditional frustrations

  • Six new recruits including first female engineering apprentice in 20 years appointed to award-winning team

    The region’s biggest bus company, Go North East has welcomed its first female apprentice in two decades, to embark on its unique bus and coach mechanical and electrical engineering apprenticeship.
    Hand-picked from over 500 applicants, Melissa Millington, joins six new recruits in the company’s most recent apprentice intake. Melissa will undertake training and development alongside Go North East

  • Go North East joins the fun at Sunderland Pride’s ‘best year yet’

    Festival-goers to this year’s Sunderland Pride got more than they bargained for when boarding Go North East’s Pride bus, enjoying fun face painting, glitter art and a caricaturist.
    This year’s festival, hailed the ‘best year yet’, took place on Sunday 23 September, with hundreds of people taking to the streets of the city to mark the North East event which celebrates local gay, lesbian, bisexua

  • Thousands look up to the sky for airborne spectacle as Go North East helps celebrate Sunderland Airshow

    Over 15,000 visitors hopped on-board the bus to battle the wind and rain for a weekend of sky displays at the Sunderland Airshow; with Go North East on-hand to guide passengers to the festivities.
    The region’s largest bus company supported the three-day event with almost 100 extra buses, 61 drivers and 14 supervisors; working across additional routes and four specially dedicated park and ride s

  • Tall Ships Sunderland was ‘plain sailing’ thanks to Go North East

    Around 1.2 million visitors flocked to the docks of Sunderland as The Tall Ships Races 2018 sailed into town – and Go North East was on-hand to help those travelling to the event catch a glimpse, with specially dedicated bus services.
    The region’s largest bus company supported the colourful five-day festival of culture, with 54 vehicles and 175 team members working across the event on dedicated

  • Go North East offers a safe ride home to region’s night owls

    Thousands of passengers journeying between Newcastle, Sunderland and Durham after a late shift at work, social occasion or all-night studying session are benefiting from comfortable, convenient weekend travel with added peace of mind thanks to Go North East’s annual £10m investment in new vehicles including on its N21 and N56 night bus services.
    Both services are fitted internally with CCTV an

  • Go North East transports local couple to married life

    Riding the bus home at the end of the evening is typical for many bus passengers, but for Colin and Kayleigh Thompson, choosing the final Go North East Drifter 60 service on 5 May marked the beginning of their lives together as husband and wife.
    Eager to make their special day ‘a wedding to remember’, after the traditional nuptials at St John’s Church in Seaham, the County Durham couple held a

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