The region’s biggest bus company, Go North East is continuing with its winning ways as its customer service team celebrates securing two finalist spots in the North East Contact Centre Awards.
A first in an industry that typically calls-in third party resource, the 12-strong in-house team is one of four in the running for the Dream Team of the Year accolade, after being selected by judges from
Amid research highlighting three in 10 Brits go at least one day a week without speaking to anyone and in a bid to support North Easterners who maybe battling with loneliness, Go North East is introducing ‘Chatty Bus Champions’ to three of its busiest routes on Tuesday 29th January.
A Go North East bus has been transformed into an inspirational learning environment, to encourage students with special educational needs from County Durham to read for fun and improve their literacy skills.
Trainers from the region’s largest bus operator, Go North East, have completed innovative training with National Express, allowing them to be fully compliant with the coach company’s recently-introduced driver evaluation process.
As the first partner operator to fully complete the training programme, the instructors from the Go North East Training Academy can now ensure each and every driver un
Dine for just £10 or £15 per person.
A flagship Sunderland bus route that links the city’s main visitor attractions is to get new buses and a new colour scheme that celebrates the city’s heritage.
Young people with special educational needs and disabilities are being helped to live more independently thanks to the charity, Children North East and the region’s largest bus operator, Go North East.
Bus Buddies is a successful project pioneered by Children North East in the Gateshead area that has enabled 27 young people to use public transport in order to get to school, college, work or ac
The region's largest bus operator Go North East will be deploying extra buses during the week-long strike planned by drivers at the Arriva bus company from 6th - 12th January which will affect Arriva’s services operating in Durham and Teesside.
Go North East is keen to reassure customers that all its services, operating throughout Tyne & Wear, Northumberland, County Durham and the Tees Vall
Award-winning bus company Go North East is reducing its weekly ticket prices by up to 16% during its unique January sale event.
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
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
From 6 January 2019, there will be some minor amendments to services 42/42A due to the upcoming roadworks around Benton Asda.
During Monday-Saturday daytimes, the service will no longer run to Wallsend Metro. There will be minor changes to the timetable to allow for the revised route, and to improve reliability.
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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.
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